<?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[A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42852]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23508]]></link><description><![CDATA[My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I complain, have been stolen by my neighbor. This the judge desires to have proved to him; but you, with swelling words and extravagant gestures, dilate on the Battle of Cannae, the Mithridatic war, and the perjuries of the insensate Carthaginians, the Syllae, the Marii, and the Mucii. It is time, Postumus, to say something about my three goats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulties arise when we ask how much this polar complementarity [of the sexes] should be reflected in the structure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulties arise when we ask how much this polar complementarity [of the sexes] should be reflected in the structure of social life, both domestic and public. The New Testament [again, and notoriously, in the person of St Paul] assumes that there will be places other than the bedroom in which men and women assume consciously differentiated roles. They will do so in the affairs of the home, in which the wife is to "submit" to her husband (Eph. 5:22ff) as head. They will do so even outside the context of family life, since man is "head" of woman in some sense; in quite another context, when the Church is at worship (I Cor. 11:2ff). In order that St Paul should not be misjudged, we must note--(a) that this relational ordering of male and female presupposes a fundamental generic equality (I Cor. 11:1 ff); and (b) that the "submission" of the wife is a special case of a "submission" of all Christians to one another, and complements a husband's love that is to be expressed in self-sacrifice (Eph. 5:2lff, 25ff). The apostle is not an apologist for male tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392   It may seem an anachronism to speak of "the relation of the ordained ministry towards the Church" ... when we are only thinking about St. Paul and his converts. Was there really an ordained ministry as early as that? We need not argue about whether, or how, St. Paul was ordained, but he certainly considered that he and his fellow workers had a special pastoral relation to their converts.... St. Paul was primarily a missionary, which in itself establishes a link with the Servant of the Lord. As a missionary, he was not working on his own, but was supported by a group of assistants without whose help he could never have carried on his work. We know the names of many of them... But there were many more whose names we do not know, sometimes referred to as "the brethren" (e.g., in I Cor. 16:11). This missionary group with St. Paul as its leader is the New Testament equivalent of the ordained ministry of today, and it is significant for us that St. Paul describes this group as carrying out in some sense the work of servants in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23656]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be kind of tight. I scouted (Madison), and they're still athletic like they normally are. But they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40793]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be kind of tight. I scouted (Madison), and they're still athletic like they normally are. But they don't have a strong inside game, and that could be a plus for us. Hopefully we're going to rely on that and hopefully some good defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66705]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49521]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She shut us down, then Lauren Atwood got a rocket single off of her to start the third and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39833]]></link><description><![CDATA[She shut us down, then Lauren Atwood got a rocket single off of her to start the third and it showed everyone that we could hit off of her. We've really been hitting the ball well. Her hit opened the game. She's really worked hard and she's contributing every time I put her in the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were focusing on college students' attitudes toward foreign policy and for religion and morality. As part of any survey, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40252]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were focusing on college students' attitudes toward foreign policy and for religion and morality. As part of any survey, in today's youth and college students in particular, we had to focus on the Iraq war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a little leery with the weather like it is. The ice was about six inches thick. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32847]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a little leery with the weather like it is. The ice was about six inches thick. It was safe where we went.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2637]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11406]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an ordeal, but we're going home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an ordeal, but we're going home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely. -Adam Michnik.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks with timidity invites a refusal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say life's what happens when you're busy making other plans. But sometimes in New York, life is what happens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44428]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say life's what happens when you're busy making other plans. But sometimes in New York, life is what happens when you're waiting for a table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through  And keep their impious turbans on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through  And keep their impious turbans on without   Good morrow to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60972]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we've been preparing for this and all we're ready to do is do more of what we've been doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39292]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we've been preparing for this and all we're ready to do is do more of what we've been doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 At morn I plucked a rose and give it Thee, A rose of joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 At morn I plucked a rose and give it Thee, A rose of joy and happy love and peace,  A rose with scarce a thorn:  But in the chillness of a second morn My rose bush drooped, and all its gay increase Was but one thorn that wounded me. I plucked the thorn and offered it to Thee, And for my thorn Thou gavest love and peace,  Not joy this mortal morn:  If Thou hast given much treasure for a thorn, Wilt Thou not give me for my rose increase Of gladness, and all sweets to me? My thorny rose, my love and pain, to Thee I offer, and I set my heart in peace,  And rest upon my thorn:  For verily I think to-morrow morn Shall bring me Paradise, my gift's increase, Yea, give Thy very Self to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better buy than borrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better buy than borrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work;  And nothing pleaseth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19575]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work;  And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall not be put out until what you about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall not be put out until what you about to write is finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46296]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray thee let me and my fellow have A hair of the dog that bit us last night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18590]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray thee let me and my fellow have A hair of the dog that bit us last night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fascist sees the mote in his neighbor’s eye, then hits him over the head with the beam in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15324]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fascist sees the mote in his neighbor’s eye, then hits him over the head with the beam in his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5901]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5901</guid></item></channel></rss>