<?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 Edward the Confessor, 1066   Our wills are not ours to be crushed and broken; they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   Our wills are not ours to be crushed and broken; they are ours to be trained and strengthened. Our affections are not ours to be blighted and crucified; they are ours to be deepened and purified. The rich opportunities of life are not held out to us only to be snatched away by an invisible hand patiently waiting for the hour when the cup is sweetest; they are given to us that we may grow, alike through their rise or their withdrawal. They are real, they are sweet, and they are worthy of our longing for them; we gain nothing by calling them dross, or the world an illusion, or ourselves the victims of deception, or by exalting renunciation as the highest virtue. When these opportunities are denied us, it is a real, not an imaginary, loss which we sustain; and our part is not that of bare renunciation, of simple surrender; our part is to recognize the loss, to bear the pain, and to find a deeper and richer life in doing the will of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a language spoken by everyone but understood only by heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a language spoken by everyone but understood only by heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of a collaboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of a collaboration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61969]]></link><description><![CDATA[As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science does not know its debt to imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science does not know its debt to imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15053]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62194]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven. [Fr., Dieu est le poete, les hommes ne sont que les acteurs. Ces grandes pieces qui se jouent sur la terre ont ete composees dans le ciel.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These kids are so desperate for the dream that almost nothing will deter them. Most of the time, they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32171]]></link><description><![CDATA[These kids are so desperate for the dream that almost nothing will deter them. Most of the time, they will follow blindly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The very activities for which we were created are, while we live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The very activities for which we were created are, while we live on earth, variously impeded: by evil in ourselves or in others. Not to practice them is to abandon our humanity. To practice them spontaneously and delightfully is not yet possible. This situation creates the category of duty, the whole specifically moral realm. It exists to be transcended. Here is the paradox of Christianity. As practical imperatives for here and now, the two great commandments have to be translated "Behave as if you loved God and man". For no man can love because he is told to. Yet obedience on this practical level is not really obedience at all. And if a man really loved God and man, once again this would hardly be obedience; for if he did, he would be unable to help it. Thus the command really says to us, "Ye must be born again". Till then, we have duty, morality, the Law. A schoolmaster, as St. Paul says, is to bring us to Christ. We must expect no more of it than of a schoolmaster; we must allow it no less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings?  Ah, who is this lady fine?   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings?  Ah, who is this lady fine?   The Vine, boys, the Vine!    The mother of the mighty Wine,     A roamer is she      O'er wall and tree       And sometimes very good company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12026]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're using figures from the school district, their budget and we've used their maintenance list and we believe every word ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37885]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're using figures from the school district, their budget and we've used their maintenance list and we believe every word we have on the radio is accurate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33236]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lack a clear statement where the newspaper apologizes for the offense and stand by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28522]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lack a clear statement where the newspaper apologizes for the offense and stand by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 12 years of playing, I've never been on a team that won a playoff game. That was awesome. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34736]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 12 years of playing, I've never been on a team that won a playoff game. That was awesome. They were singing the fight song. Cars were lined up in the grass out there. There must have been a thousand people around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage;  And if I chance to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45234]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage;  And if I chance to fall below   Demosthenes or Cicero,    Don't view me with a critic's eye,     But pass my imperfections by.      Large streams from little fountains flow,       Tall oaks from little acorns grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  It seems to me to be the best proof of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.  ... The Colloquies of Erasmus    April 30, 1998  Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  What keeps most men in "Christian" countries from being heretics in this sense is that they do not publicly avow their disbelief: it is in better taste to be casual about lost beliefs, and a note of wistfulness generally ensures forgiveness. Obstinacy is rare. Millions do not even know that they deny essential Christian doctrines: they have never bothered to find out what the essential doctrines are. In extenuation they may plead that the evasiveness and the multiplicity of churches create a difficulty; but to be deterred by this when one's eternal destiny is said to be at stake bespeaks a glaring lack of seriousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memories are all we really own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memories are all we really own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times I might play some kind of folkloric flute, although I didn't play those with the frequency or the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33065]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times I might play some kind of folkloric flute, although I didn't play those with the frequency or the skill then as I do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First master the fundamentals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13757]]></link><description><![CDATA[First master the fundamentals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.(explaining to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57570]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.(explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice, 1982)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53520]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. [Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. [Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66037]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids are feeling better about what they are doing, and are ready for that 'W' on Tuesday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids are feeling better about what they are doing, and are ready for that 'W' on Tuesday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O little Force that in your agony Stood fast while England girt her armour on,  Held high our honour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57131]]></link><description><![CDATA[O little Force that in your agony Stood fast while England girt her armour on,  Held high our honour in your wounded hands,   Carried our honour safe with bleeding feet--    We have no glory great enough for you,     The very soul of Britain keeps your day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64281]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valencia has done an excellent job of building and guiding a very thoughtful and effective diversity and inclusion strategy at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valencia has done an excellent job of building and guiding a very thoughtful and effective diversity and inclusion strategy at our company. Her long history of service at BellSouth and in the community combined with her breadth of business knowledge makes her a tremendous asset to this Board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64218]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose wit in the combat as gentle as bright Ne'er carried a heartstain away on its blade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose wit in the combat as gentle as bright Ne'er carried a heartstain away on its blade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is legal process that now is up to the international community, because there is more than one country implicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42618]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is legal process that now is up to the international community, because there is more than one country implicated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22711]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3643]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3643</guid></item></channel></rss>