<?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[We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18373]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flea in his ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flea in his ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66685]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58248]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Pistol:) And tidings do I bring and lucky joys And golden times and happy news of price.  (Falstaff:) I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44471]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Pistol:) And tidings do I bring and lucky joys And golden times and happy news of price.  (Falstaff:) I pray thee now, deliver them like a man of this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17828]]></link><description><![CDATA[True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been thesystematic organization of hatreds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been thesystematic organization of hatreds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm voted player of the week one week and the next I'm sitting on the bench. It becomes very tempting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm voted player of the week one week and the next I'm sitting on the bench. It becomes very tempting to look ahead and I'm doing that right now. I have to make the best decision for myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get something done a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9006]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get something done a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63616]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9467]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17032]]></link><description><![CDATA[You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States was foundedby the violent overthrowof a violently founded throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States was foundedby the violent overthrowof a violently founded throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30322]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air,  And fly well know whither,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air,  And fly well know whither,   And rest I well know where.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But innocence has nothing to dread. [Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20959]]></link><description><![CDATA[But innocence has nothing to dread. [Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540   The attitude of Jesus to the Jewish law was singularly free and unembarrassed. He made full use of it as an impressive statement of high ethical ideals; even its ritual practices He treated with perfect tolerance where they did not conflict with fundamental moral obligations. From Pharisaic formalism He appealed to the relative simplicity of the venerable written Law. But again from the written Law itself He appealed to the basic rights and duties of humanity: the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath; the Law might permit the dissolution of marriage, but there was something more deeply rooted in the nature of things which forbade it; the [law of retaliation], the central principle of legal justice, must go overboard in the interest of the holy impulse to love your neighbor, not merely as yourself, but as God has loved you. Such freehanded dealing meant that the whole notion of morality as a code of rules, with sanctions of rewards and punishments, was abandoned. But the average Christian was slow to see this implication. For instance, Jesus had taken fasting out of the class of meritorious acts, and given it a place only as the fitting and spontaneous expression of certain spiritual states. This is what an early authoritative catechism of the Church made of His teaching: "Let not your fast be made with the hypocrites, for they fast on Monday and Thursday; ye therefore shall fast on Wednesday and Friday." It sounds ludicrous, but we may ask, Was it not on some very similar principle that the Church did actually carry through its reconstruction of "religious observance"? And a Church which so perverted Christ's treatment of the ritual law proved itself almost equally incapable of understanding His drastic revision of the moral law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law and order is now a big issue, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law and order is now a big issue,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consideration, like an angel, came And whipped the offending Adam out of him. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consideration, like an angel, came And whipped the offending Adam out of him. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it sounds overused, but truthfully, each department is interdependent upon the other. You couldn't have done it without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it sounds overused, but truthfully, each department is interdependent upon the other. You couldn't have done it without physicians, hospital board and staff members, city council all different stakeholder groups consistently working together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast,  Nor yet within the common soil  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43039]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast,  Nor yet within the common soil   Lay down the wreck of power to rest,    Where man can boast that he has trod     On him that was "the scourge of God."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't do drugs. I am drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65320]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't do drugs. I am drugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. [Lat., Malum est necessitati ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44062]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. [Lat., Malum est necessitati vivere; sed in necessitate vivere necessitas nulla est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best is the cheapest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best is the cheapest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing is the true test of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing is the true test of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While most of us are breathing a sigh of relief I want to remind residents that hurricane season does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31036]]></link><description><![CDATA[While most of us are breathing a sigh of relief I want to remind residents that hurricane season does not end until Nov. 30, ... We have been extremely fortunate this time around, but this is an active hurricane season and more named storms are likely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5100]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the baby dies, On every side  Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud.   The baby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3637]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the baby dies, On every side  Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud.   The baby was not wrapped in any shroud.    The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed     That men's eyes might not see      Her misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36188]]></link><description><![CDATA[To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice. If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Replacing McCabe was a big step for Jake. He had seasoned kids around him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Replacing McCabe was a big step for Jake. He had seasoned kids around him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57436]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24799]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24799</guid></item></channel></rss>