<?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 David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  The scandal of the Bible does not lie so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  The scandal of the Bible does not lie so much in its claim to record the Word of God, as in its insistence that the Word of God is to be heard in a particular historical happening, in a particular locality -- and only there. To put it in a provocative manner: the Bible is theology. It is historical theology. It can reveal its meaning only to those who regard it as the Word of God, and are able to preserve a strict confidence in the universal significance of particular historical occasions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57694]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They met on the streets of Seattle. The reason they chose the name The Coats, there were a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29389]]></link><description><![CDATA[They met on the streets of Seattle. The reason they chose the name The Coats, there were a lot of rainy nights on the streets, so they got overcoats and wore them. They are young. Very refreshing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Camera bags attract too much attention. I use a regular bike messenger bag. I also think about the picture before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Camera bags attract too much attention. I use a regular bike messenger bag. I also think about the picture before I take it. I don't compose my shots through the viewfinder, so I'm not keeping my camera visible for long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9678]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is really for the clubs and players and people providing their feedback to let us know, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28452]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is really for the clubs and players and people providing their feedback to let us know,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not good fishing before the net. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not good fishing before the net.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend,  And borrowing dulleth edge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend,  And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65336]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very tough to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30335]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very tough to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That?s what we?re trying to build. Two more groups to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33320]]></link><description><![CDATA[That?s what we?re trying to build. Two more groups to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ne'er presumed to make an error clearer;-- In short, there never was a better hearer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18978]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ne'er presumed to make an error clearer;-- In short, there never was a better hearer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't do it on every missing adult. In this situation, we had an adult, albeit a mentally challenged individual, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33716]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't do it on every missing adult. In this situation, we had an adult, albeit a mentally challenged individual, who, in the past, had been known to go elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest;  Fate never wounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest;  Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart,   Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song of gladness in the heart.  ... Bernard of Clairvaux May 8, 2000 Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might this noble Lord do of more worship and joy to me than to show me (that am so simple) this marvelous homeliness [i.e., naturalness and simplicity]? Thus it fareth with our Lord Jesus and with us. For truly it is the most joy that may be that He that is highest and mightiest, noblest and worthiest, is lowest and meekest, homeliest and most courteous: and truly this marvelous joy shall be shewn us all when we see Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16692]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Anderson understands that Evelyn runs the risk of seeming a little too saintly.] That's why the character of Tuff is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37205]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Anderson understands that Evelyn runs the risk of seeming a little too saintly.] That's why the character of Tuff is such a great sounding board, because she's the one who says, `How can you bear it?' ... And Evelyn Ryan, being who she was, could find satisfaction in any situation that she was living in. She found the magic, and the profundity, in the act of raising children. And, oh man, I couldn't do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   What is the Christian? Everywhere the man who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   What is the Christian? Everywhere the man who, so far as he comprehends Jesus Christ, so far as he can get any knowledge of Him, is His servant -- the man who makes Christ a teacher of his intelligence and the guide of his soul -- the man who obeys Christ as far as he has been able to understand him... I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm pushing hard for affordable housing. I'm encouraging developers to bring in projects at a lower cost to locals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm pushing hard for affordable housing. I'm encouraging developers to bring in projects at a lower cost to locals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1835]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson still survives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson still survives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance is a great promoter of admiration! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance is a great promoter of admiration!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46036]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a major accomplishment for me and I'll take it in stride. I was just trying to focus on helping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38921]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a major accomplishment for me and I'll take it in stride. I was just trying to focus on helping the team get a 'W' today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which can be entailed upon mankind is a state of war. All the atrocious crimes committed in years of peace -- all that is spent in peace by the secret corruptions or by the thoughtless extravagances of nations -- are mere trifles compared with the gigantic evils which stalk over the world in a state of war. God is forgotten in war -- every principle of Christian charity is trampled upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the victim and the stone knife. [Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the victim and the stone knife. [Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moving moon went up to the sky, And nowhere did abide;  Softly she was going up,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moving moon went up to the sky, And nowhere did abide;  Softly she was going up,   And a star or two beside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59040]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25390]]></link><description><![CDATA[At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel;Achilles absent was Achilles still:Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. - Iliad, The.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the onlything you'll have left is your character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the onlything you'll have left is your character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the right to do as the law permits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  You rob, and spoile, and eat his people as bread, by Extortion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  You rob, and spoile, and eat his people as bread, by Extortion, and bribery, and deceitful waights and measures, and deluding oathes in buying and selling, and then come hither, and so make God your Receiver, and his house a den of Thieves. His house is Sanctum Sanctorum, The holiest of holies, and you make it onely Sanctuarium: It should be a place sanctified by your devotions, and you make it onely a Sanctuary to priviledge Maelfactors, a place that may redeeme you from the ill opinion of men, who must in charity be bound to thinke well of you, because they see you in here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17637]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17637</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[This is all very frustrating, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29426]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is all very frustrating,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throwing sand into the wheels of deeper international economic integration in order to reduce adjustment costs, as contemplated by some, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throwing sand into the wheels of deeper international economic integration in order to reduce adjustment costs, as contemplated by some, is not an attractive option.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64230</guid></item></channel></rss>