<?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[Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690  To pass from estrangement from God to be a son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690  To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe. You are no longer working against the grain of the universe; you're working with it... You have been forgiven by God and now you can forgive yourself. All self hate, self-despising, self-rejection, drop away, and you accept yourself in God, respect yourself, and love yourself... You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60758]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Americans when they die go to Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Americans when they die go to Paris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nicer to have them chant your name than to do the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nicer to have them chant your name than to do the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46749]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours  Were nice and lucky, men did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours  Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives   Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth    And send to darkness all that stop me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  When we say that the Scriptures are plain to all capacities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  When we say that the Scriptures are plain to all capacities in all things necessary, we mean that any man of ordinary capacity, by his own diligence and care, in conjunction with the helps and advantages which God hath appointed, and in the due use of them, may attain to the knowledge of everything necessary to his salvation; and that there is no book in the world more plain and better fitted to teach a man any art or science than the Bible is to direct and instruct men in the way to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258  It is only by forgetting yourself that you can draw near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258  It is only by forgetting yourself that you can draw near to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jawani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   As the veil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jawani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   As the veil of the temple was, at the death of the Saviour, rent asunder, in the same way our communion with the Crucified puts aside all the curtains separating us artificially from the rest of the world, and removes all sense of privilege and exclusiveness. It is this explanation of justification by faith only which leads us to the true depth of what the Gospel has contributed to this world. To live by grace and to die by grace, to live in forgiveness every day, every hour and every moment, means to identify oneself with those who do not share our faith, and to realize all the debts we owe them. Let us not be afraid that this will reduce the Gospel to relativism. Its depth is in proportion to its breadth. The deeper it is, the broader and fuller it becomes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hire tea by the tea bag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hire tea by the tea bag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57694]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every legislator knows where their political strengths are, where the greatest number of votes comes from, and with the ability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every legislator knows where their political strengths are, where the greatest number of votes comes from, and with the ability to draw the maps themselves they can carve out districts that are very precisely drawn to favor their future political interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn some grand mistake  Casts off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48726]]></link><description><![CDATA[But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn some grand mistake  Casts off its bright skin yearly like a snake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been Skinny; it's fucking boring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been Skinny; it's fucking boring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not over. These kids believe in each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40593]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not over. These kids believe in each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun;  And he who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20597]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun;  And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife,   From strength to strength advancing--only he    His soul well-knit, and all his battles won,     Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12886]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something's got to move. The outcome becomes worse for the state the longer it's put off. This is the city's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something's got to move. The outcome becomes worse for the state the longer it's put off. This is the city's deal. And the governor encourages them to do something sooner than later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4968]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hasn't Sheik Osama bin Laden told you that you will not dream of security before there is security in Palestine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hasn't Sheik Osama bin Laden told you that you will not dream of security before there is security in Palestine and before all the infidel armies withdraw from the land of Muhammed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, toanother-and especially yourself-"I Can't," take a deep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, toanother-and especially yourself-"I Can't," take a deep breathand say instead, "My resources are otherwise engaged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night was drawing and closing her curtain up above the world, and down beneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night was drawing and closing her curtain up above the world, and down beneath it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She (Alonso) wrote checks, gave them to friends, family members, businesses ... they cashed them and gave back cash to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31038]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (Alonso) wrote checks, gave them to friends, family members, businesses ... they cashed them and gave back cash to the tune of $10,000, $18,000, $11,000 in cash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question is ever settled Until it is settled right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54254]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers face to face, friends side by side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers face to face, friends side by side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competitiveness has been a big thing for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George W. Bush has not been there even though he is the governor of Texas. When Sen. Lieberman goes there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38161]]></link><description><![CDATA[George W. Bush has not been there even though he is the governor of Texas. When Sen. Lieberman goes there he will be there one more time than the governor of Texas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22825]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres.   Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognized a few years ago that we can't adopt our way out of the overpopulation problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34962]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognized a few years ago that we can't adopt our way out of the overpopulation problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country, however bounded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country, however bounded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The accursed hunger for gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The accursed hunger for gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18160]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. [Lat., Conveniens homini est hominem servare voluptas.  Et melius nulla quaeritur arte favor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;  And through the blue heavens above us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;  And through the blue heavens above us   The very clouds move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61406]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous. [Lat., Facile est momento quo quis velit, cedere possessione magnae fortunae; facere et parare eam, difficile atque arduum est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61406</guid></item></channel></rss>