<?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[A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set outto accomplish it. He should make this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22745]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set outto accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point ofhis thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be aworldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whicheverit is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object whichhe has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, andshould devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts towander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is theroyal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if hefails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily mustuntil weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be themeasure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point forfuture power and triumph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47504]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63249]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there's no doubt that if Cincinnati can get their attendance up ... then it all makes good sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there's no doubt that if Cincinnati can get their attendance up ... then it all makes good sense and hockey will be here for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook,  Thy bubblings ne'er remember   Apollo's summer look;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook,  Thy bubblings ne'er remember   Apollo's summer look;    But with a sweet forgetting,     They stay their crystal fretting,      Never, never petting       About the frozen time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only ofcomfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only ofcomfort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  As long as I see any thing to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18076]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52053]]></link><description><![CDATA[When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fans want electrifying content that allows them to relive the emotional experience they get from live events. Usher is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fans want electrifying content that allows them to relive the emotional experience they get from live events. Usher is the single most electrifying entertainer of his generation and Truth Tour is another example of Best Buy's commitment to use technology to deliver fans the best seat in the house from the convenience of their homes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/611]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing devised by the enemy. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56025]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing devised by the enemy. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she didn't enjoy it, she would gauze it as her duty to do what she vowed to do,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?  The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky   Thou still canst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?  The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky   Thou still canst find the color of thy wing,    The hue of May.     Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why,      Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring?       Whither away?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her grief is real who grieves when no one is by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her grief is real who grieves when no one is by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15346]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of the Last Supper, scene of the Resurrection appearances when the doors were shut, scene now of their waiting for the Spirit. Whose is it? The clue lies in Acts 12, where St. Peter, strangely freed from Herod's prison, knows at whose house they will be gathered for prayer. He knocks, startles the gate-girl Rhoda. It was "the house of Mary the mother of John whose surname was Mark" -- the young man who was to write the earliest of the gospels. The first meeting place of any Christian congregation was the home of a woman in Jerusalem. Something of the sort happens everywhere. The church in Caesarea centres upon Philip the Evangelist. "Now this man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy." ... Joppa church depends on Tabitha, "a woman full of good works and almsdeeds which she did". Follow St. Paul about the Mediterranean. He crosses to Europe because he dreams of a man from Macedonia who cries, "Come over and help us". But when he lands at Philippi it is not a man, but a woman. "Lydia was baptized and her household" -- his first convert in Europe, a woman. Everywhere women are the most notable of the converts, often the only ones who believe. In Thessalonica there are "of the chief women not a few"; Beroea, "Greek women of honourable estate"; Athens, only two names, one of them, Damaris, a woman. At Corinth Priscilla and Aquila come into the story, the pair always mentioned together, and four times out of the six with the wife's name first, a thing undreamed of in the first century. Why? Because she counted for more in church affairs -- hostess of the church in her houses in Corinth, Ephesus and Rome, chief instructress of Apollos the missionary, intimate of the greatest missionary of all, St. Paul. Six times in the Epistles greetings are sent to a house-church, and in five cases the church is linked with a woman's name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53647]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was quite interesting but I didn't come for this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28926]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was quite interesting but I didn't come for this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can believe that Jesus was a god: what is so hard to credit is that He who hung upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can believe that Jesus was a god: what is so hard to credit is that He who hung upon the cross was the God. That is what you are asked as Christians to believe. And it is the sword, glittering but fearful. It must cut your life away from the standards of this world, away from its thought and its measures, no less than its aims and hopes. Hard and bitter is the separation, and you will be parted from many great and noble men, some perhaps your own teachers, who can accept about Jesus everything but the one thing needful. The Christian faith, if accepted, drives a wedge between its own adherents and the disciples of every other philosophy or religion, however lofty or soaring. And they will not see this; they will tell you that really your views and theirs are the same thing, and only differ in words, which, if only you were a little more highly trained, you would understand. Even among Christ's nominal servants there are many who think a little good-will is all that is needed to bridge the gulf -- a little amiability and mutual explanation, a more careful use of phrases, would soon accommodate Christianity to fashionable modes of speaking and thinking, and destroy all causes of provocation. So they would. But they would destroy also its one inalienable attraction: that of being... a wonder, and a beauty, and a terror -- no dull and drab system of thought, no mere symbolic idealism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes younger girls are a little easier to teach, because the older girls have developed bad habits that are harder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes younger girls are a little easier to teach, because the older girls have developed bad habits that are harder to break. But we've made a lot of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This bombastic announcement is open defiance of what the international community is asking from Iran. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32995]]></link><description><![CDATA[This bombastic announcement is open defiance of what the international community is asking from Iran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43994]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agriculture and Commerce ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agriculture and Commerce]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55487]]></link><description><![CDATA[This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19369]]></link><description><![CDATA[History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism... To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never repent of having eaten too little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65357]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never repent of having eaten too little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature abhors a moron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature abhors a moron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23577]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Berowne:) What is the end of study, let me know? (King:) What, that to know which else we should not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58045]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Berowne:) What is the end of study, let me know? (King:) What, that to know which else we should not know.  (Berowne:) Things hid and barred, you mean, from common sense?   (King:) Ay, that is study's godlike recompense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the Drama with the day;   Time's noblest offspring is the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48353</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[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27246]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45601]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country ;turns out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tigard and Canby should be good as well. We will be right in the thick of it though. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tigard and Canby should be good as well. We will be right in the thick of it though.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37634</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[If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23280]]></link><description><![CDATA[If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pay for it from the student activity fee and the regular CRC budget process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33083]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pay for it from the student activity fee and the regular CRC budget process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China has declared its commitment to human rights and has raised expectations for the country to match its growing prosperity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41091]]></link><description><![CDATA[China has declared its commitment to human rights and has raised expectations for the country to match its growing prosperity with a firm commitment to advancing human rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54718]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54718</guid></item></channel></rss>