<?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[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Continuing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Continuing a short series on prayer:  Even if all the things that people prayed for happened -- which they do not -- this would not prove what Christians mean by the efficacy of prayer. For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them. Invariable "success" in prayer would not prove the Christian doctrine at all. It would prove something more like magic -- a power in certain human beings to control, or compel, the course of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12062]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist  The why of natural law is the living Voice of God immanent in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist  The why of natural law is the living Voice of God immanent in His creation. And this word of God which brought all worlds into being cannot be understood to mean the Bible, for it is not a written or printed word at all, but the expression of the will of God spoken into the structure of all things. This word of God is the breath of God filling the world with living potentiality. The Voice of God is the most powerful force in nature, indeed the only force in nature, for all energy is here only because the power-filled Word is being spoken. [Continued].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are continually published, their confidence continues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are continually published, their confidence continues to grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22842]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage  Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unraveling the web of Penelope. [Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unraveling the web of Penelope. [Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20844]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using resources now so that future generations can have them later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good reputation is more valuable than money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53898]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good reputation is more valuable than money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance.  Lesse at thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance.  Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest   Thy person share, and the conceit advance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a privilege as well as being exciting. The fans are extremely tribal, very parochial, very supportive, and it's one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32586]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a privilege as well as being exciting. The fans are extremely tribal, very parochial, very supportive, and it's one of the huge highlights so far of my coaching career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette requires us to admire the human race ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette requires us to admire the human race]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To perpetuate the clerical role of answer man, the layman when inside the church building must act as if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6356]]></link><description><![CDATA[To perpetuate the clerical role of answer man, the layman when inside the church building must act as if he has only half a brain, while outside, in the world, he is expected to be an ambassador for Christ, a lay transmitter of faith. Outside, he is to be informed and vocal; inside, he must appear ignorant and mute as a sheep. Christians have within them many questions -- questions that are at once elementary and profound, questions that would ripple the water were they raised. However, because a Christian is supposed to have "answers", life's important questions are not discussed outside the church building; and, because the pastor is the educated, spiritual authority, they are not discussed inside either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that that domain expertise will preclude the MCAD and [product data management] vendors form getting more involved in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40442]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that that domain expertise will preclude the MCAD and [product data management] vendors form getting more involved in this space. But we will need tight alliances with MCAD vendors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25273]]></link><description><![CDATA[To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall,  Where the dear Lord was crucified   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6121]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall,  Where the dear Lord was crucified   Who died to save us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46167]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AstronomerAn astronomer used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The AstronomerAn astronomer used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18812]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14174]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love death. The US loves life. That is the difference between us two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45311]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love death. The US loves life. That is the difference between us two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt:  Good husbandry spieth   Where profit get.   - Thomas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt:  Good husbandry spieth   Where profit get.   - Thomas Tusser,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64919]]></link><description><![CDATA[When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16361]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independent monitors should be given immediate access to any detainees to make sure they are not being mistreated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Independent monitors should be given immediate access to any detainees to make sure they are not being mistreated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot give thee less, to be called grateful. Thou thought'st to help me, and such thanks I give  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot give thee less, to be called grateful. Thou thought'st to help me, and such thanks I give  As one near death to those that wish him live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/348]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54853]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was on the last night of His life, when His enemies were all around Him, that He spoke to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7154]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was on the last night of His life, when His enemies were all around Him, that He spoke to His disciples of the joy that no man taketh away. Read again the story of His Passion: Jesus is seen throughout as calm, quiet, and confident. His last word is, "Father, into Thy hands I commit my spirit". Someone may say, "Yes, but He knew that He was going to rise from the dead." But have we not the same promise for ourselves? [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41592]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may appear a low-level crime, but it's the kind of crime that seriously affects the lives of people in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may appear a low-level crime, but it's the kind of crime that seriously affects the lives of people in Edinburgh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be the change we wish to see in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21094]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be the change we wish to see in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21094</guid></item></channel></rss>