<?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[He must of necessity fear many whom many fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51606]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must of necessity fear many whom many fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just have to keep playing hard. We can't get all excited about where we are now, then come out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39440]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just have to keep playing hard. We can't get all excited about where we are now, then come out and not play well. If we just come out each game and play our hardest, then we can stay in control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What wasn't hit by Katrina is being targeted by Rita. The market is taking the storm very seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28507]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wasn't hit by Katrina is being targeted by Rita. The market is taking the storm very seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For evil news rides post, while good news baits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44463]]></link><description><![CDATA[For evil news rides post, while good news baits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66288]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   I am quite prepared to promise the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   I am quite prepared to promise the secularists secular education if they on their side will promise not to have moral instruction. Secular education seems to me intellectually clean and comprehensible. Moral instruction seems to me unclean, intolerable; I would destroy it with fire. Teaching the Old Testament by itself means teaching ancient Hebrew ethics, which are simple, barbaric rudimentary, and, to a Christian, unsatisfying. Teaching moral instruction means teaching modern London, Birmingham and Boston ethics, which are not barbaric and rudimentary, but are corrupt, hysterical and crawling with worms, and which are to a Christian, not unsatisfying but detestable. The old Jew who says that you must fight only for your tribe is inadequate; but the modern prig who says you must never fight for anything is substantially and specifically immoral. I know quite well, of course, that the unreligious ethics suggested for modern schools do not verbally assert these things; they only talk about peaceful reform, true Christianity, and the importance of Count Tolstoy. It is all a matter of tone and implication--but then, so is all teaching. Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume that really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small things become the small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small things become the small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    Wherever God's Word may be preached, His precepts remain a letter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    Wherever God's Word may be preached, His precepts remain a letter and dead words so long as they are not received by men with a pure heart; only where they pierce to the soul do they become, so to speak, changed into Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4221]]></link><description><![CDATA[But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912   O eternal God, who from all eternity dost behold and love thy own glories and perfections infinite, and hast created me to do the work of God after the manner of men, and to serve thee in this generation and according to my capacities, give me thy grace, that I may be a curious and prudent spender of my time, so as I may best prevent or resist all temptation, and be profitable to the Christian commonwealth, and, by discharging all my duty, may glorify thy name. Take from me all slothfulness, and give me a diligent and an active spirit, and wisdom to choose my employment; that I may do works proportionable to my person and to the dignity of a Christian, and may fill up all the spaces of my time with actions of religion and charity; that, when the devil assaults me, he may not find me idle; and my dearest Lord, at his sudden coming, may find me busy in lawful, necessary, and pious actions, improving my talent entrusted to me by thee, my Lord; that I may enter into the joy of my Lord, to partake of his eternal felicities, even for thy mercy's sake, and for my dearest Saviour's sake. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57105]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They sing, they will pay. [Fr., Ils chantent, ils payeront.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56461]]></link><description><![CDATA[They sing, they will pay. [Fr., Ils chantent, ils payeront.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  We see him exalting love for neighbor along with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  We see him exalting love for neighbor along with love for God. He reaches out to foreigners who are beyond the borders of the "Israel of God". He seeks the release of captives, prisoners, and slaves. He denounces the scribes and religious leaders who "devour the houses of widows". Despite his well-known requirement of loyalty that surpasses family ties, he insists that a man put the care of his own parents ahead of his obligations to his religion. His treatment of women is radically opposed to the strictures of that day. He exhibits sympathy and understanding toward children. He operates an out-patient clinic wherever he happens to be. He insists upon justice as the basis for everyday dealings between citizens. The social teaching of parables like "the good Samaritan" and incidents such as the encounter with the rich young ruler have had an effect upon his followers that cannot easily be measured. If one summary statement of Jesus' ethics can be made, it is that love of God is best shown by love of fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shopping for jeans can be such a pain. But these invite-only events create a party atmosphere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shopping for jeans can be such a pain. But these invite-only events create a party atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26415]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55087]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen is when the bull jumps, he sets you up so that you lean way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen is when the bull jumps, he sets you up so that you lean way back,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not in the position where we need to sell anyone here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32831]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not in the position where we need to sell anyone here,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4534]]></link><description><![CDATA[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I converse   With the old sages and philosophers;    And sometimes, for variety, I confer     With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;      Calling their victories, if unjustly got,       Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,        Deface their ill-placed statues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first game up there we had a chance to close the door and they came back and tied the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first game up there we had a chance to close the door and they came back and tied the score and won the game. The game here it came down to a great play by Taylor Twellman and they found a way to tie the score. We just have to find a way to do that little bit extra to finish off a game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33133]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14780]]></link><description><![CDATA[The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8595]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology however frank and open our behaviour we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, drip, drip (of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34060]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, drip, drip (of health coverage).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13201]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. [Lat., Quisquis magna dedit, voluit sibi magna remitti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. [Lat., Quisquis magna dedit, voluit sibi magna remitti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he. "but every goose can."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like I'd always get close [to gaining 100 yards in a game] but fall short. It felt good to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39138]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like I'd always get close [to gaining 100 yards in a game] but fall short. It felt good to get that one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we made it real hard for them to enter the zone. Once they got it in, as soon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32048]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we made it real hard for them to enter the zone. Once they got it in, as soon as we had a chance to force, we did. We were getting the puck out when we had a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is the nation without a history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is the nation without a history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Supply-and-demand, -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Supply-and-demand, -- alas! For what noble work was there ever yet any audible demand in that poor sense? The man of Macedonia, speaking in vision to the Apostle Paul, "Come over and help us", did not specify what rate of wages he would give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good government is no substitute for self-government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good government is no substitute for self-government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54572]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him. But the people said nothing. [1 Kings 18:21].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11451]]></link><description><![CDATA[More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11451</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[I said, 'You're from Chicago, home of the blues. Here's a nice blues record from a local band,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said, 'You're from Chicago, home of the blues. Here's a nice blues record from a local band,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a new system, but it is a lot like the system he ran with the Rams in the past. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30518]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a new system, but it is a lot like the system he ran with the Rams in the past. He's fit back into a system he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roof is completely gone and there are some floors that are collapsing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34393]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roof is completely gone and there are some floors that are collapsing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18875</guid></item></channel></rss>