<?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[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which we daily hear from Christian lips. To possess a high spirit, to behave with proper spirit when used ill -- by which is meant, a quick feeling of injuries, and a promptness in resenting them -- entitles to commendation; and a meek-spirited disposition, the highest Scripture eulogium, expresses ideas of disapprobation and contempt. Vanity and vainglory are suffered without interruption to retain their natural possession of the heart.   ... William Wilberforce, A Practical View  July 31, 2000 Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means father or "daddy" in his Aramaic mother tongue), as an address in his prayers to God. There are no other examples of this usage in contemporary Judaism, but Jesus always addressed God in this way. The others perhaps regarded it as child's talk, a form of expression too disrespectful to be so used. But for Jesus, abba expressed the filial intimacy he felt toward his Father. As the divine Son of the Father, Jesus enjoyed a unique relationship with him, and his mission in the world consisted in opening up the blessings of sonship to those who believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59965]]></link><description><![CDATA[I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing you can do is get good at being you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing you can do is get good at being you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to go into my view at the moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to go into my view at the moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait forsomething outside of yourself to make you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait forsomething outside of yourself to make you happy in the future--Think howreally precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work orwith your family. Every minute should be enjoyed, savored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47438]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40823]]></link><description><![CDATA[That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be a mother of four, a welder or a distinguished business person. These people build up a tolerance and manage to still maintain their daily lifestyles while constantly struggling with this disease, because it is a recognized disease by the American Medical Association.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -.Dr.Karl Menninger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -.Dr.Karl Menninger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,  The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";   The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase confessed.    Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"     "Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;      Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"       And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";        Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";         Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During that period we greatly improved the financial health of the company by selling low-return businesses, reducing debt, stabilizing AOL, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34290]]></link><description><![CDATA[During that period we greatly improved the financial health of the company by selling low-return businesses, reducing debt, stabilizing AOL, and made significant progress in resolving the company's legal challenges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41918]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42273]]></link><description><![CDATA[His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hath thy heart within thee burned, At evening's calm and holy hour? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hath thy heart within thee burned, At evening's calm and holy hour?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1669]]></link><description><![CDATA[As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[That, she said, was because, while Baton Rouge escaped most of the damage suffered by the Big Easy, it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38812]]></link><description><![CDATA[[That, she said, was because, while Baton Rouge escaped most of the damage suffered by the Big Easy, it was a primary evacuation point for residents from the more southerly parishes -- counties -- of Louisiana.] So there were more people, ... and so there was more crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only one of many who should be arrested. The investigation must be conducted openly for people to have confidence that powerful figures will not be protected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has opened a new diplomatic channel for Pakistan and the pro-Israeli groups in the US will not oppose Pakistan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36342]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has opened a new diplomatic channel for Pakistan and the pro-Israeli groups in the US will not oppose Pakistan to the extent they used to do in the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breaking his oath and resolution, like A twist of rotten silk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breaking his oath and resolution, like A twist of rotten silk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48360]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57548]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2176]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12834]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a little gray house in a one-street town, And the door stands open, and the steps go down, And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42312]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a little gray house in a one-street town, And the door stands open, and the steps go down, And you prop up the window with a stick on the sill, And you carry spring water from the bottom of the hill; And the white star of Bethlehem grows in t]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God who sends the wound sends the medicine. [Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26685]]></link><description><![CDATA[God who sends the wound sends the medicine. [Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather be right than be President. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather be right than be President.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wasn't paranoid, they really were after him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24151]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wasn't paranoid, they really were after him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!  Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51237]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!  Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss   I carried from thee dear; and my true lip    Hath virgined it e'er since.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually, I stopped picking up the phone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually, I stopped picking up the phone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jests that give pains are no jests ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jests that give pains are no jests]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The How To Book of Teen Self Discovery -Doc Childre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The How To Book of Teen Self Discovery -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't think that, as proposed, this is a workable approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't think that, as proposed, this is a workable approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61749]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43199]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded. •Terry Kath, rockmusician, played russian roulette    Waiting are they? Well let'em wait! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded. •Terry Kath, rockmusician, played russian roulette    Waiting are they? Well let'em wait!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24145</guid></item></channel></rss>