<?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[He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27378]]></link><description><![CDATA[He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the way of crop losses, theres some localized areas that had losses, but on a widespread basis, we missed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35311]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the way of crop losses, theres some localized areas that had losses, but on a widespread basis, we missed the most significant damage,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This proposal here will send us back to the drawing board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34019]]></link><description><![CDATA[This proposal here will send us back to the drawing board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities _ that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42521]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities _ that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are the real architects of society. -Harriet Beecher Stowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are the real architects of society. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did that a lot, he worked behind the scenes. He knew who he needed on board to make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30164]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did that a lot, he worked behind the scenes. He knew who he needed on board to make it happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which we daily hear from Christian lips. To possess a high spirit, to behave with proper spirit when used ill -- by which is meant, a quick feeling of injuries, and a promptness in resenting them -- entitles to commendation; and a meek-spirited disposition, the highest Scripture eulogium, expresses ideas of disapprobation and contempt. Vanity and vainglory are suffered without interruption to retain their natural possession of the heart.   ... William Wilberforce, A Practical View  July 31, 2000 Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means father or "daddy" in his Aramaic mother tongue), as an address in his prayers to God. There are no other examples of this usage in contemporary Judaism, but Jesus always addressed God in this way. The others perhaps regarded it as child's talk, a form of expression too disrespectful to be so used. But for Jesus, abba expressed the filial intimacy he felt toward his Father. As the divine Son of the Father, Jesus enjoyed a unique relationship with him, and his mission in the world consisted in opening up the blessings of sonship to those who believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High noon behind the tamarisks, the sun is hot above us-- As at home the Christmas Day is breaking wan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8634]]></link><description><![CDATA[High noon behind the tamarisks, the sun is hot above us-- As at home the Christmas Day is breaking wan,  They will drink our healths at dinner, those who tell us how they love us,   And forget us till another year be gone!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My hat is in the ring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62633]]></link><description><![CDATA[My hat is in the ring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward To what they were before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward To what they were before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is overdoing the thing to die for love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21939]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is overdoing the thing to die for love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61372]]></link><description><![CDATA[That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort -- the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort -- the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing -- the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous contemplent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This concern for the rights and liberties and welfare of the backward peoples is rooted in the Christian ethic of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7193]]></link><description><![CDATA[This concern for the rights and liberties and welfare of the backward peoples is rooted in the Christian ethic of justice and of the duty to help and protect the weak, upon the Christian valuation of man as of spiritual dignity and worth, as made for freedom, as a potential child of God. These principles have no validity unless the Christian view of man be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we would find a different Notre Dame team than the one we played at their place. I knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35488]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we would find a different Notre Dame team than the one we played at their place. I knew we would have to play a lot better than we did there. Our post players came up really big. It went exactly the way I thought it would except for the last five or six minutes, considering the kind of week we had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount offear as the person who regularly takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount offear as the person who regularly takes risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20089]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that Iran will not become an obstacle to peace and security in Iraq. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40143]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that Iran will not become an obstacle to peace and security in Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[accomplishments, and at the same time, none of the competitors is stronger than him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28530]]></link><description><![CDATA[accomplishments, and at the same time, none of the competitors is stronger than him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64935]]></link><description><![CDATA[You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You no longer really have to record the Super Bowl because you can get all the commercials on AOL the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33017]]></link><description><![CDATA[You no longer really have to record the Super Bowl because you can get all the commercials on AOL the next day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23981]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RIM is already seeing a lot of competition from rivals like Microsoft and Palm . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30416]]></link><description><![CDATA[RIM is already seeing a lot of competition from rivals like Microsoft and Palm .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64348]]></link><description><![CDATA[For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45027]]></link><description><![CDATA[That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24299]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You wake up but not really. In the bedroom you grew up in. It's the only place on this entire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18372]]></link><description><![CDATA[You wake up but not really. In the bedroom you grew up in. It's the only place on this entire planet that is yours. The only place on the planet that understands you. It understands the way your nerves flare everytime you think about talking to anyone, scared into shyness at the thought of opening your mouth but the way you are the best hypocrite around when you're in front of a microphone. It knows what turns that switch on and off and on again. It understands the way when you don't have a smile on your face everyone only spits: "what's wrong"s and "you look tired"s. So the way you keep it on your face just wide enough to avoid questions. It understands how neurotic you have become, the way you treat your flaws like old friends. The way you look in the mirror and think of yourself as "Mr. Misery"...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65650]]></link><description><![CDATA[War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission:"While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission:"While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless,day after day.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13556]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18270]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18270</guid></item></channel></rss>