<?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[War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19468]]></link><description><![CDATA[War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20324]]></link><description><![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35787]]></link><description><![CDATA[People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44169]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike income, or even sales taxes, property taxes are not accurate indicators of your cash at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike income, or even sales taxes, property taxes are not accurate indicators of your cash at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is the whetstone of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is the whetstone of talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my opinion, with all due respect to those in attendance, this is a Trojan horse for District 300, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my opinion, with all due respect to those in attendance, this is a Trojan horse for District 300,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  The very Nazis look at you with wonderment and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  The very Nazis look at you with wonderment and an open contempt! For even they are sure that to live for nothing higher than oneself is to lose life; that life, to be called life, can be found only in serving something bigger than one's personal interests; something that crowds these out of mind and heart, till one forgets about them and lives wholly, and without exception, for that other, worthier thing... It is long since Aristotle told us that only barbarians have as their ideal the wish to live as they please, and to do what they like. And the New Testament gravely sets us down before the Cross, and bids us gaze, and still gaze, and keep gazing, till the fact has soaked itself into our minds that that, not less than that, is now the standard set us, and that whatever in our lives clashes with that is sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Christians we believe that man is not a thing; he is not a commodity to be bought and sold, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6192]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Christians we believe that man is not a thing; he is not a commodity to be bought and sold, and he is not to be used in an impersonal way. Man, a child of God, is a person with a personal destiny and with eternal value. This Christian belief underlies the democratic principle that the State, first of all, exists for the sake of its citizens; the individual is important... As Christians we also believe that we are made for one another because we are made for God. "Solidarity" is a good word for our essential condition. Beneath all our differences is a unity... This Christian belief underlies a second basic democratic principle, which is, in governing themselves, people of a community -- in a town, a city, a state, a nation -- can, despite inevitable conflicts, press effectively toward the goal of justice and liberty for all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for what the Church thinks and says, what influence does that have on the handling of American politics, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6270]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for what the Church thinks and says, what influence does that have on the handling of American politics, the conduct of American education, the regulation of marriage and divorce, on sex and drink, on how industrial disputes are settled, on how we carry on business? As a plain matter of fact, religion in this country is generally regarded as a tolerated pastime for such people as happen to like to indulge in occasional godly exercises -- as a strictly private matter in an increasingly close-knit and socially acting society -- in other words, as something that does not count. I should like to see the Church recognize that it has been pushed into the realm of the non-essentials, and to persuade it to fight like fury for the right and the duty to bring every act of America and Americans before the bar of God's judgment. [Christian leaders] are making valiant claim to such a right and duty; but the great mass of Church members are content to regard the Church as a conglomerate of private culture clubs, nice for christenings, weddings and funerals. Most Church members readily agree with the unchurched majority that it is not the proper business of the Church to criticize America or Americans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48776]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15801]]></link><description><![CDATA[All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41179]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59326]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. . -David Norris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People see the world not as it is, but as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14529]]></link><description><![CDATA[People see the world not as it is, but as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50266]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all living in a chemical soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all living in a chemical soup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved. Some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved. Some followers of the Rev. R. J. Campbell, in their almost too fastidious spirituality, admit divine sinlessness, which they cannnot see even in their dreams. But they essentially deny human sin, which they can see in the street. The strongest saints and the strongest sceptics alike took positive evil as the starting-point of their argument. If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness in skinning a cat, then the religious philosopher can only draw one of two deductions. He must either deny the existence of God, as all atheists do; or he must deny the present union between God and Man, as all Christians do. The new theologians seem to think it a highly rationalistic solution to deny the cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,— One foot in sea and one on shore, To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,— One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power to question is the basis of all human progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power to question is the basis of all human progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou the bird whom Man loves best, The pious bird with the scarlet breast,  Our little English Robin; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou the bird whom Man loves best, The pious bird with the scarlet breast,  Our little English Robin;   The bird that comes about our doors    When autumn winds are sobbing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to changetheir lives, but I've met many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21152]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to changetheir lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change theirmotive to service in order to change their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that feares death lives not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49336]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that feares death lives not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satellite-delivered HDTV is driving the business for many of our customers, ... We are delighted to again help DIRECTV connect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satellite-delivered HDTV is driving the business for many of our customers, ... We are delighted to again help DIRECTV connect with its customers and expand its services in the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commenting on LaVell Edwards' contribution to college football: He may not be at the head of the class, but whatever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commenting on LaVell Edwards' contribution to college football: He may not be at the head of the class, but whatever class he is in it doesn't take long to call the roll.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20844]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49530]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65482]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he first went down, it didn't look good. And he was so close to the bench that he didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33980]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he first went down, it didn't look good. And he was so close to the bench that he didn't have to get up to get off the ice, so I wasn't sure what happened. But I talked to the trainer between periods and he thought it would be good and then I saw Mike after and he was all smiles with the team winning the division. So a crisis averted, I guess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER   Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER   Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us.  Its use: to turn our will to His will.  Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24746]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, man! more water glideth by the mill That wots the miller of; and easy it is  Of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61302]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, man! more water glideth by the mill That wots the miller of; and easy it is  Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know:   Though Bassianus be the emperor's brother,    Better then he have worn Vulcan's badge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility - it may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59112]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility - it may be right but irrelevant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great problem with doing that in real time is people live in real time and almost everybody's default forecasting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great problem with doing that in real time is people live in real time and almost everybody's default forecasting method is to extrapolate the recent past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3172]]></link><description><![CDATA[A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ago, people used to host Sunday afternoon dances with desserts and tea. We figured with the growing popularity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ago, people used to host Sunday afternoon dances with desserts and tea. We figured with the growing popularity of the tango, we might be able to bring back two lost traditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have neither the pretension to solve all the problems of these deaf children nor the intention to sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12356]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have neither the pretension to solve all the problems of these deaf children nor the intention to sit down and feel sorry for these poor children, knowing that we could have made a difference in their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12356</guid></item></channel></rss>