<?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[Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53605]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not remember'd in thy epitaph! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not remember'd in thy epitaph! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13599]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which we daily hear from Christian lips. To possess a high spirit, to behave with proper spirit when used ill -- by which is meant, a quick feeling of injuries, and a promptness in resenting them -- entitles to commendation; and a meek-spirited disposition, the highest Scripture eulogium, expresses ideas of disapprobation and contempt. Vanity and vainglory are suffered without interruption to retain their natural possession of the heart.   ... William Wilberforce, A Practical View  July 31, 2000 Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means father or "daddy" in his Aramaic mother tongue), as an address in his prayers to God. There are no other examples of this usage in contemporary Judaism, but Jesus always addressed God in this way. The others perhaps regarded it as child's talk, a form of expression too disrespectful to be so used. But for Jesus, abba expressed the filial intimacy he felt toward his Father. As the divine Son of the Father, Jesus enjoyed a unique relationship with him, and his mission in the world consisted in opening up the blessings of sonship to those who believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay)  Before the sad accounting day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay)  Before the sad accounting day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. . . . Decency is very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11574]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. . . . Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57346]]></link><description><![CDATA[His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to brag, I think he's qualified too, in fact I know he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to brag, I think he's qualified too, in fact I know he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannottell. From no where we came, into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15228]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannottell. From no where we came, into nowhere we go. What is life? Itis a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo inthe winter time. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62859]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still have a refining issue. Refineries in other parts of the country have been able to increase output but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still have a refining issue. Refineries in other parts of the country have been able to increase output but they will have to go down later this year for maintenance. Refinery output will then fall below normal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit the Reflection of the old proverb, that though God sends us meat, yet the D------does cooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/932]]></link><description><![CDATA[You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63488]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54633]]></link><description><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The national assembly should draft the permanent constitution within a period ending by August 22. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The national assembly should draft the permanent constitution within a period ending by August 22.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live happily is an inward power of the soul. -Aristotle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18725]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live happily is an inward power of the soul. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden,   Stars that on earth's firmament do shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1302]]></link><description><![CDATA[To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But you have signed an agreement with the Russians! They will sell us oil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29706]]></link><description><![CDATA[But you have signed an agreement with the Russians! They will sell us oil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have mercy upon us miserable sinners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have mercy upon us miserable sinners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in the interstices of floor boards, on the iron of a heel, and can measure it and swear to it and weave it into a rope to hang a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is what we all have in common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is what we all have in common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, as long as the prices are steady and people have their jobs, I think they will do what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, as long as the prices are steady and people have their jobs, I think they will do what is needed to make their payments and avoid the foreclosure process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you survive Christmas? You drink a lot. And drink a lot, right. Drink a lot and drink a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31778]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you survive Christmas? You drink a lot. And drink a lot, right. Drink a lot and drink a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/83]]></link><description><![CDATA[Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/83</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57532]]></link><description><![CDATA[One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football? (when asked if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries this season resulted from poor physical conditioning)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This method gives us an incredible map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that exist in Brazil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36179]]></link><description><![CDATA[This method gives us an incredible map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that exist in Brazil or in any tropical forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23968]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23968</guid></item></channel></rss>