<?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 heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable  As the dog Jew did utter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6173]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable  As the dog Jew did utter in the streets:   'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!    Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't much older than the students. They were 18, and I was 22, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't much older than the students. They were 18, and I was 22,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Stag in the Ox-StallA stag, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1600]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Stag in the Ox-StallA stag, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hid himself in a shed among the oxen. An Ox gave him this kindly warning: O unhappy creature! why should you thus, of your own accord, incur destruction and trust yourself in the house of your enemy?' The Stag replied: Only allow me, friend, to stay where I am, and I will undertake to find some favorable opportunity of effecting my escape. At the approach of the evening the herdsman came to feed his cattle, but did not see the Stag; and even the farm-bailiff with several laborers passed through the shed and failed to notice him. The Stag, congratulating himself on his safety, began to express his sincere thanks to the Oxen who had kindly helped him in the hour of need. One of them again answered him: We indeed wish you well, but the danger is not over. There is one other yet to pass through the shed, who has as it were a hundred eyes, and until he has come and gone, your life is still in peril. At that moment the master himself entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been properly fed, he went up to their racks and cried out: Why is there such a scarcity of fodder? There is not half enough straw for them to lie on. Those lazy fellows have not even swept the cobwebs away. While he thus examined everything in turn, he spied the tips of the antlers of the Stag peeping out of the straw. Then summoning his laborers, he ordered that the Stag should be seized and killed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is alwways the first handicap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58647]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is alwways the first handicap to any creative functioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it. [Lat., Virtute enim ipsa non tam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it. [Lat., Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse, quam videri volunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women tend to wear clothes that are too tight, and men tend to wear clothes that are too loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women tend to wear clothes that are too tight, and men tend to wear clothes that are too loose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46033]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43172]]></link><description><![CDATA[To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60228]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined personalgoals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined personalgoals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth,  His early dreams of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5644]]></link><description><![CDATA[With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth,  His early dreams of good out-stripp'd the truth,   And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26544]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would contend that our children are as important to the future of the country as the economy. The stock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would contend that our children are as important to the future of the country as the economy. The stock market will never depend on it, but I hope the report will annually at least focus attention on the status and condition of our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise,  And some the architect: his hand was known  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise,  And some the architect: his hand was known   In heaven by many a tower'd structure high,    Where scepter'd angels held their residence,     And sat as princes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50248]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47284]]></link><description><![CDATA[There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2475]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's time where you have to have fun, ... The grind of the camp becomes too much for the psyche ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41336]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's time where you have to have fun, ... The grind of the camp becomes too much for the psyche of a college player. You have to always, constantly try to be on the same page with your players. You can't let them get too far away where you can't tell what they're thinking or what they're feeling. At the same time, it's not a sit-around-the-camp-fire session every day where we are discussing our feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're clearly sending a message to employees that they will be rewarded for high performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39800]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're clearly sending a message to employees that they will be rewarded for high performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're there before it's over, you're on time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52533]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're there before it's over, you're on time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We view this campaign more as a marathon than we do a sprint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39294]]></link><description><![CDATA[We view this campaign more as a marathon than we do a sprint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really put us on ... the mass consumer map, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39853]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really put us on ... the mass consumer map,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought I should be treated like a star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought I should be treated like a star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21491]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who trust us educate us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who trust us educate us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What an alteration of honour has Desperate want made! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51373]]></link><description><![CDATA[What an alteration of honour has Desperate want made!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces,  The fading ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces,  The fading Alps and archipelagoes,   And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to success runs uphill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/925]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to success runs uphill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people age 25 to 30 don't have the capital or cash to afford fertility treatments, but that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people age 25 to 30 don't have the capital or cash to afford fertility treatments, but that's the age when they have a much greater chance of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to do something different and winning this is just an extra benefit. It was kind of a bummer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37930]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to do something different and winning this is just an extra benefit. It was kind of a bummer last year to get DQ for that. Things happen, but that's racing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lost a cousin about three years ago. I felt helpless and wished there was something I could have done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost a cousin about three years ago. I felt helpless and wished there was something I could have done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18478]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in the work, not with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in the work, not with the hope of making a paradise (of the earth), but simply to make it more tolerable -- not to diminish the opposition between this world and the Kingdom of God, but simply to modify the opposition between the disorder of this world and the order of preservation that God wants it to have -- not to bring in the Kingdom of God, but so that the Gospel might be proclaimed in order that all men might truly hear the good news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  It may be possible for each of us to think too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  It may be possible for each of us to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbour. The load, or weight, or burden, of my neighbour's glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship --or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43667]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol is what fathers of the Church have called "the bondage of the will". This bondage becomes most painfully apparent in our lives when we earnestly feel the need of changing but cannot; when we are attracted to another value that for one reason or another conflicts with the desires of our true god --that value nearest and dearest to us. But our true god lies so deeply inside us that often we are not even consciously aware of its presence or of what it actually is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6221</guid></item></channel></rss>