<?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[The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60730]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17690]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56865]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To each man at his birth nature has given some fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50953]]></link><description><![CDATA[To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many laws argues so many sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56387]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many laws argues so many sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look forward to seeing (the festival) with great enthusiasm and with fingers crossed that it can really make a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look forward to seeing (the festival) with great enthusiasm and with fingers crossed that it can really make a positive difference here by bringing people into a greater awareness that all different kinds of theater can be made and presented here,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44416]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just saying it will be one of the tallest buildings in Orlando. We're not looking to get into a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30956]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just saying it will be one of the tallest buildings in Orlando. We're not looking to get into a competition over who can build the biggest yacht, so to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe he was making weekly trips to Mexico for the specific purpose of buying heroin -- up to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe he was making weekly trips to Mexico for the specific purpose of buying heroin -- up to a pound at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many; and "tics" meaning bloodsucking creatures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many; and "tics" meaning bloodsucking creatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25312]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them -- that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven -- but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him.  ... A. C. McGiffert, A History of Christian Thought  August 21, 2000   At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2856]]></link><description><![CDATA[My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who lies for you will lie against you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who lies for you will lie against you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. [A feather in hand is better than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4233]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. [A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world is nothing except it tend to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49969]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world is nothing except it tend to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest ;man and to the gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57548]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45541]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters of the Church, into hatred of those who those who brought that flesh into being. Misogyny, the hatred of women, had become a strong element in medieval Christianity. Women who menstruate, and give birth, were identified with sexuality and therefore with evil. "All witchcraft stems from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable," stated the Malleus Maleficarum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57460]]></link><description><![CDATA[With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nuts, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34496]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nuts,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the jasmine flower in her fair young breast, (O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmine flower!)  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23125]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the jasmine flower in her fair young breast, (O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmine flower!)  And the one bird singing alone to his nest.   And the one star over the tower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7663]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity the sorrow of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have brought him to your door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity the sorrow of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have brought him to your door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the past two days we have probably gotten at least 10 bags of clothes, toys, shoes ... it's just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40577]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the past two days we have probably gotten at least 10 bags of clothes, toys, shoes ... it's just incredible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280    [At the Garden of Olives Monastery]  "Why are you all so quiet all the time?" I say, still whispering at him in this hoarse voice.  "We are teachers and workers," he says, "not talkers."  "Workers, O.K.," I say, "but how can a teacher be quiet all the time and teach anybody anything?"  "Christ was the best," he says, thinking of something. "He lived thirty-three years. Thirty years he kept quiet; three years he talked. Ten to one for keeping quiet.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14324]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59369]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.   - Matthew Prior, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.   - Matthew Prior,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we areheaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we areheaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doing we learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24578]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doing we learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55452]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God hath made this world so fair,Where sin and death abound,How beautiful beyond compareWill paradise be found!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11293]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God hath made this world so fair,Where sin and death abound,How beautiful beyond compareWill paradise be found!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the flag of England? Ye have but my breath to dare, Ye have but my waves to conquer. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16139]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the flag of England? Ye have but my breath to dare, Ye have but my waves to conquer. Go forth, for it is there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;  And this they knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18460]]></link><description><![CDATA[However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;  And this they knew and felt, at least the one,   The leader of the hand he had undone,--    Who, born for better things, had madly set     His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66907]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58947]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58947</guid></item></channel></rss>