<?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[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  A great many of those about me would be imprisoned under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  A great many of those about me would be imprisoned under any law; in France, as here, they would be regular jail-birds. But I loved them better and better -- and still I knew how little was my love for them compared to Christ's. It is easy enough for a man to be honest and a "Good Christian" and keeper of "the moral law", when he has his own little room, his purse well filled -- when he is well shod and well fed. It is far less easy for a man who has to live from day to day, roaming from city to city, from factory to factory. It is far less easy for someone just out of jail, with nothing to wear but old down-at-the-heels shoes and a shirt in rags. All of a sudden, I understood our Lord's words: "I was in prison ... and you visited me not." All these men, lazy, outside the law, starving: these failures of all kinds -- they were dear to Christ -- they were Christ, waiting in prison for someone to lean over Him -- and if we were true Christians, we would do them every kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the least in want who is the least covetous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51604]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the least in want who is the least covetous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns,  Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50667]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns,  Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights   To him who wears the regal diadem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46196]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are looking at a pretty heavy train that would take at least a mile to stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38199]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are looking at a pretty heavy train that would take at least a mile to stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52442]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53910]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worldly things were of little meaning. She lived for hamburgers, ice cream, pencil and paper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worldly things were of little meaning. She lived for hamburgers, ice cream, pencil and paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61436]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to repay almost $3,000 to groups and people who had given us money thinking it was deductible, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to repay almost $3,000 to groups and people who had given us money thinking it was deductible, and I figure we've lost maybe another $4,000 in donations we would have gotten since this came up. So we're hurting. We need some help to pay the bills and keep our programs going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful places, they were. They had porches in front, high ceilings in the apartments. You could watch the West Albany ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful places, they were. They had porches in front, high ceilings in the apartments. You could watch the West Albany fireworks. But that was long before your time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healer of others, himself diseased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50916]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healer of others, himself diseased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19191]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why would you pay more for a big name? It comes out of your hide each and every year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why would you pay more for a big name? It comes out of your hide each and every year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think she was very astute, along with the prime minister and her other advisers, to recognize that to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38456]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think she was very astute, along with the prime minister and her other advisers, to recognize that to let this go unanswered would have, in the minds of many, confirmed their worst suspicions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15838]]></link><description><![CDATA[90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7594]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sandbanks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret is out. There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret is out. There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34956</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[Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12888]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is but what he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52382]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is but what he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most expensive wedding usually ends with the quickest divorce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most expensive wedding usually ends with the quickest divorce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of breath to no possible purpose; in attempting everything, doing nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of breath to no possible purpose; in attempting everything, doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   That fear which keeps from sin and excites the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   That fear which keeps from sin and excites the soul to cleave more firmly to God, be the object of it what it will, is no servile fear, but a holy fear and due reverence unto God and His word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in debt is so far a slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11473]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in debt is so far a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main difference this year is I feel that I'm more important to the team. We lost some good post ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main difference this year is I feel that I'm more important to the team. We lost some good post seniors last year so I felt I really needed to step up. They needed me so I stepped up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must be cruel only to be kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must be cruel only to be kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing Under the sky's gray arch;  Smiling I watch the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing Under the sky's gray arch;  Smiling I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing   It is the wind of March.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good news, worthy of all acceptation, and yet not too good to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44457]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good news, worthy of all acceptation, and yet not too good to be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the brink of it Picture it--think of it,  Dissolute man.   Lave in it--drink of it  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the brink of it Picture it--think of it,  Dissolute man.   Lave in it--drink of it    Then, if you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3993]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no longer looking for a Soviet division; the threat is now about a person, ... The problem you're talking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39686]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no longer looking for a Soviet division; the threat is now about a person, ... The problem you're talking about is how do you find one person, among 20-some million in Iraq, who has the ability to move. That's very difficult, but that's the war we're in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's sports and we can't do anything about it. We've got to play with the players we have. What can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40668]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's sports and we can't do anything about it. We've got to play with the players we have. What can you do? You have no choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40668</guid></item></channel></rss>