<?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[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Continuing a short series on education:   We demand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Continuing a short series on education:   We demand, as [St. Paul] did, that the candidate must be of good moral character -- at least, so far as that he can produce testimonials to his good conduct. We demand, as the apostle demanded, that he must hold fast the faithful word -- at least, so far as that he shall not write deliberate heresy in his examination papers, and shall profess belief in the Creed. We demand, as he demanded, that the candidate must be apt to teach -- at least, so far as an examination of his verbal memory can prove that he knows what he ought to teach. But there is some difference between the "without reproach" of the apostle and our testimonials; and there is a difference between the holding fast of the faith by a man tried in the furnace of life, and the soundness in the faith of a youth fresh from a theological school; and the aptness to teach of a man of experience and social authority is not quite the same thing as the aptness to teach of a young man who has just passed an examination in the subject-matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all you've had for the past three weeks is pizza, tuna fish looks pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all you've had for the past three weeks is pizza, tuna fish looks pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to relieve families from time to time is to let them keep some of their own money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to relieve families from time to time is to let them keep some of their own money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22536]]></link><description><![CDATA[A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goalkeeper thought Tony was going to shoot, and he stayed on his line. He passed instead, which gave me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goalkeeper thought Tony was going to shoot, and he stayed on his line. He passed instead, which gave me a pretty easy shot. I got it in, which was huge for us. We really needed to win this game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone was friendly, helpful and I always enjoyed coming here. There always were good horses here, and I won a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone was friendly, helpful and I always enjoyed coming here. There always were good horses here, and I won a lot of money here. That's the name of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweeter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55568]]></link><description><![CDATA[For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birth: The first and direst of all disasters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried on by other means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried on by other means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people don't even expect us to score on these teams, ... We score twice, that might break their momentum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people don't even expect us to score on these teams, ... We score twice, that might break their momentum and make them ask, 'How are they doing this to us?' Whether it's one point or it's 30 points, I'm going to be upset because a loss is a loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joe understands team. Basketball is not about having the five best players. It's about having five players that play the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joe understands team. Basketball is not about having the five best players. It's about having five players that play the best together. It's a puzzle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to really get the word out to the industry to make sure they know what the opportunities are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32951]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to really get the word out to the industry to make sure they know what the opportunities are here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44725]]></link><description><![CDATA[When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47229]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God himself has no right to be a tyrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47405]]></link><description><![CDATA[God himself has no right to be a tyrant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are obligations to nobility. [Lat., Noblesse oblige.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44579]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are obligations to nobility. [Lat., Noblesse oblige.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   We are not only to renounce evil, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Krishna offered to the little girlmouse.. the hand of the sungodin marriage.. but instead shechosea little boy mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Krishna offered to the little girlmouse.. the hand of the sungodin marriage.. but instead shechosea little boy mouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a vast difference between saying prayers and praying ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48030]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a vast difference between saying prayers and praying]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9102]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/71]]></link><description><![CDATA[The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/71</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base wealth preferring to eternal praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderate Muslims have been given a giant task. The world is watching how they respond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderate Muslims have been given a giant task. The world is watching how they respond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O shame, where is thy blush? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56135]]></link><description><![CDATA[O shame, where is thy blush?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3400]]></link><description><![CDATA[And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day,  The less by night, altern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54764]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5650]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some misapprehension, I say, some obliquity, or some slavish adherence to old prejudices, may thus cause us to refuse the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some misapprehension, I say, some obliquity, or some slavish adherence to old prejudices, may thus cause us to refuse the true interpretation, but we are none the less bound to refuse and wait for more light. To accept that as the will of our Lord which to us is inconsistent with what we learned to worship in Him already, is to introduce discord into that harmony whose end is to unite our hearts, and make them whole. "Is it for us," says the objector who, by some sleight of will, believes in the word apart from the meaning for which it stands, "to judge the character of our Lord?" I answer, "This very thing He requires of us." He requires of us that we should do Him no injustice. He would come and dwell with us, if we would but open our chambers to receive Him. How shall we receive Him is, avoiding judgement, we hold this or that daub of authority or tradition hanging upon our walls to be the real likeness of our Lord?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65091]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62768</guid></item></channel></rss>