<?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[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  We must frankly face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  We must frankly face the fact that there is in this teaching a revolutionary element which could be dangerously subversive of our existing ways of thought. Let us admit that it is part of the fallen human nature of ecclesiastics, no less than of others in responsible positions, to desire always criteria of judgement which can be used without making too heavy demands upon the delicate faculty of spiritual discernment, clear-cut rules by which we may hope to be saved from making mistakes -- or rather, from being obviously and personally responsible for the mistakes. We are uncomfortable without definite principles by which we may guide our steps. We fear uncharted country, and the fanatics of all kinds who, upon the alleged authority of the Holy Spirit, summon us with strident cries in all directions simultaneously. Only those who have never borne the heavy burden of pastoral responsibility will mock at the cautious spirit of the ecclesiastic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.   - Thomas W. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25962]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.   - Thomas W. Higginson,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasmin two small jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasmin two small jumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not in the position where we need to sell anyone here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32831]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not in the position where we need to sell anyone here,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God enters by a private door into every individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17716]]></link><description><![CDATA[God enters by a private door into every individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No naked man is sought after to be rifled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49654]]></link><description><![CDATA[No naked man is sought after to be rifled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22481]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Bible, faith is a mixture of trust and trustworthiness. To have complete confidence in God makes a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6566]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the Bible, faith is a mixture of trust and trustworthiness. To have complete confidence in God makes a man reliable. And, when someone never lets you down, you look instinctively for a deeper relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek some one else to whom you may vaunt your empty present: what I cannot pay you, Phoebus, is my own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. Whenthe judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. Whenthe judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. Stooping by the coffinlid waiting for something to rise as the something's always did. ImagineHis surprise, bellowing above the general noise, "Where is Effie? Shewas dead." Back to God in a tiny voice: "My name's Maybe."The first crumb said. The number two crumb picked up the song."Might, I'm called. I've done no wrong." Cried the third crumb,"I am Should. Here's our little brother Could and my big sisterWould. Don't punish us for we've been good." And the last crumb, withsome shame, whispered unto God, "My name is Must and with the others,we've been Effie, who isn't alive and never was. Cross the threshold haveno dread. Lift the sheet back in this way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   The truth is that so long as we hold both sides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   The truth is that so long as we hold both sides of the proposition together they contain nothing inconsistent with orthodoxy, but as soon as one is divorced from the other, it is bound to prove a stumbling-block. "Only those who believe obey" is what we say to that part of a believer's soul which obeys, and "only those who obey believe" is what we say to that part of the soul of the obedient which believes. If the first half of the proposition stands alone, the believer is exposed to the danger of cheap grace, which is another word for damnation. If the second half stands alone, the believer is exposed to the danger of salvation through works, which is also another word for damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year was a banner year. Digging probably won't be quite as good this year, but we'll still have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year was a banner year. Digging probably won't be quite as good this year, but we'll still have a lot of clams to harvest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. -Benjamin Disraeli.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make;  We bring our precious gifts to them,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8628]]></link><description><![CDATA[For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make;  We bring our precious gifts to them,   Even for the dear child Jesus' sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16810]]></link><description><![CDATA[To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course we do not expect to be on the pace straight away. We will use the first GPs to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course we do not expect to be on the pace straight away. We will use the first GPs to train the team before our definitive car reaches the track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was sitting at home going through everything we need to do, but I kept coming to the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was sitting at home going through everything we need to do, but I kept coming to the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to remind myself that this is for next year so I'll be ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38293]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to remind myself that this is for next year so I'll be ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft,  Without an inch of rigging on;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3629]]></link><description><![CDATA[There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft,  Without an inch of rigging on;   I looked and looked--and laughed.    It seemed so curious that she     Should cross the unknown water,      And moor herself within my room--       My daughter! O my daughter!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64911]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, Chicago's a great town; what can I say? It has a lot of diversity. You can find so many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, Chicago's a great town; what can I say? It has a lot of diversity. You can find so many different kinds of people there. It breeds a certain self-confidence and a willingness to work hard for what you want. I don't know, maybe they put something in the water -- the river is green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing with Anthony is that he loves to play basketball. Any time the gym's open, he's here. All summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing with Anthony is that he loves to play basketball. Any time the gym's open, he's here. All summer long, he was a gym rat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So little distant dangers seem: So we mistake the future's face,  Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glass;   As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60876]]></link><description><![CDATA[So little distant dangers seem: So we mistake the future's face,  Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glass;   As yon summits soft and fair,    Clad in colours of the air,     Which to those who journey near,      Barren, brown, and rough appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883   There is a certain kind of so-called conversion which separates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883   There is a certain kind of so-called conversion which separates a man from his fellow men. It may fill him with a self-righteousness which rejoices in its own superiority to those who have had no like experience. It may move a man to a Pharisaic self-isolation. There have in fact been not a few so-called conversions as a result of which a man has left the Church to belong to some smaller and holier body. The plain truth is that such a one should very seriously examine himself, if he finds what he regards as his Christian experience separating him from his fellow-men, or his fellow-Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10642]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in the world today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He likes the poor things of the world the best, I would not, therefore, if I could be rich.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5140]]></link><description><![CDATA[He likes the poor things of the world the best, I would not, therefore, if I could be rich.  It pleases him t stoop for buttercups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was real rebellious the first half of the season. He didn't want to listen to us. He had his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39062]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was real rebellious the first half of the season. He didn't want to listen to us. He had his own game plan. Then we'd get back and break down videos and ask him, 'Is this you, or is this somebody else?' He really matured in January. I think he finally got tired of us beating on him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of girls who go out there and just bust their butts. It showed (against Centerburg) when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32106]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of girls who go out there and just bust their butts. It showed (against Centerburg) when some of our girls stepped up. They didn't want to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41059]]></link><description><![CDATA[The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42060</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 the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3723]]></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/3723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the Democrats have done a better job on voter registration efforts. Whether you can get those voters out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36493]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the Democrats have done a better job on voter registration efforts. Whether you can get those voters out on Election Day remains to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14184]]></link><description><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17652]]></link><description><![CDATA[God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4847]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!  . . . .   By fairy hands their knell is rung,    By forms unseen their dirge is sung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49517]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49517</guid></item></channel></rss>