<?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[Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One takes a risk when one invites the Lord Whether to dine, or talk the afternoon Away, for always the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6475]]></link><description><![CDATA[One takes a risk when one invites the Lord Whether to dine, or talk the afternoon Away, for always the unexpected soon Turns up: a woman breaks her precious nard, A sinner does the task you should assume, A leper who is cleansed must show his proof: Suddenly you see your very roof remove And a cripple clutters up your living-room. There's no telling what to expect when Christ Walks in the door. The table set for four Must often be enlarged, and decorum Thrown to the winds. It's His voice that calls them, And it's no use to bolt and bar the door: His kingdom knows no bounds of roof, of wall or floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas a Kempis speaks for all the ages when he represents Jesus as saying to him, "A wise lover regards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thomas a Kempis speaks for all the ages when he represents Jesus as saying to him, "A wise lover regards not so much the gift of him who loves, as the love of him who gives. He esteems affection rather than valuables, and sets all gifts below the Beloved. A noble-minded lover rests not in the gift, but in Me above every gift." The sustaining power of the Beloved Presence has through the ages made the sickbed sweet and the graveside triumphant; transformed broken hearts and relations; brought glory to drudgery, poverty and old age; and turned the martyr's stake or noose into a place of coronation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42525]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ 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/42525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies:  Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26374]]></link><description><![CDATA[With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies:  Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries,   Bidding her earliest child arise;    March!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not if the dark or bright Shall be by lot;  If that wherein my hopes delight  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24829]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not if the dark or bright Shall be by lot;  If that wherein my hopes delight   Be best or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The campaigns have done of a lot of the intensive grass-roots work and electronic media ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â radio and TV advertising. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The campaigns have done of a lot of the intensive grass-roots work and electronic media ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â radio and TV advertising. They're clearly generating more interest than we had two years ago, and I think that'll carry through to election day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44540]]></link><description><![CDATA[For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13472]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8820]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To cut a whetstone with a razor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48545]]></link><description><![CDATA[To cut a whetstone with a razor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7153]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine    April 4, 1998  The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity; but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least of all deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18486]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41536]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot;  . . . .   Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot;  . . . .   Though the latitude's rather uncertain,    And the longitude also is vague,     The persons I pity who know not the City      The beautiful City of Prague.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster. I went out fast, but it was hard to maintain it by myself. So I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster. I went out fast, but it was hard to maintain it by myself. So I just ran to win today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47995]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an increase, but it's not a huge increase. It's still in line with other (area) marinas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an increase, but it's not a huge increase. It's still in line with other (area) marinas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535 Continuing a short series on topics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535 Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  He would be a brave man who claimed to realize the fallen condition of man more clearly than St Paul. In that very chapter [Romans 7] where he asserts most strongly our inability to keep the moral law he also asserts most confidently that we perceive the Law's goodness and rejoice in it according to the inward man. Our righteousness may be filthy and ragged; but Christianity gives us no ground for holding that our perceptions of right are in the same condition. They may, no doubt, be impaired; but there is a difference between imperfect sight and blindness. A theology which goes about to represent our practical reason as radically unsound is heading for disaster. If we once admit that what God means by "goodness" is sheerly different from what we judge to be good, there is no difference left between pure religion and devil worship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. -Thomas Haliburton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2599]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. -Thomas Haliburton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm supposed to do something from 5 to 6 p.m.. We'll see what happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33850]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm supposed to do something from 5 to 6 p.m.. We'll see what happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night the very gods showed me a vision-- I fast and prayed for their intelligence--thus:  I saw Jove's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night the very gods showed me a vision-- I fast and prayed for their intelligence--thus:  I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, winged   From the spongy south to this part of the west,    There vanished in the sunbeams; which portends,     Unless my sins abuse my divination,      Success to th' Roman host.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we laugh a little too much before games when we are warming up. We just need to focus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32607]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we laugh a little too much before games when we are warming up. We just need to focus on what we are doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27162]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many men in Court and so many strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49753]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many men in Court and so many strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that Deformed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55442]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that Deformed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3470]]></link><description><![CDATA[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  The result of all this is that the Christian is a free man. It is here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  The result of all this is that the Christian is a free man. It is here to be observed that the term "freedom" is ambiguous in common usage. It is sometimes used to imply that a man can do just as he likes, undetermined by any external force. To this the determinist replies that as a matter of fact this freedom is so limited by the laws which condition man's empirical existence as to be illusory. The rejoinder from the advocates of free will is that no external force can determine a man's moral conduct (and with mere automatism we are not concerned), unless it is presented in consciousness, and that in being so presented it becomes a desire, a temptation, or a motive. In suffering himself to be determined by these, the man is not submitting to external control, but to something which he has already made a part of himself, for good or ill. When, however, we have said that, we are faced with a further problem. Not all that is desired is desirable, and in being moved by my immediate desire I may be balking myself of that ultimate satisfaction which is the real object of all effort. If that is so, then to "do as I like" may well be no freedom at all. There is a law of our being which forbids satisfaction to be found along that line, as it is written, "He gave them their desire, and sent leanness into their souls." (Ps. 106:15) (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going over these overheads over the highways, and what can we do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10100</guid></item></channel></rss>