<?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[Refuse to wave the flagRefuse to move the missiles from the warehouseto the dock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Refuse to wave the flagRefuse to move the missiles from the warehouseto the dock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433  If you believe, where are your works? Your faith is something everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433  If you believe, where are your works? Your faith is something everyone knows, for everyone knows that Christ was [crucified], and that everywhere men pray to Him. The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen. 0 wise man, do you think the poor fishermen were not clever enough for this? Where they worked, there they made hearts better; where they could not work, there men remained bad; and therefore was the faith true and from God. The signs which the Lord had promised followed their teaching: in His name they drove out the devil; they spoke in new tongues; if they drank any deadly drink, they received therefrom no harm. Even if these wonders had not occurred, there would have been the wonder of wonders, that poor fishermen without any miracle could accomplish so great a work as the faith. It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course we do not expect to be on the pace straight away. We will use the first GPs to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course we do not expect to be on the pace straight away. We will use the first GPs to train the team before our definitive car reaches the track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make too much of it, and too little. Too little of it, because we pile all sorts of other things onto it, including some that have only the feeblest connection with the Event it is supposed to commemorate. If God did become a man, in any real sense, it is the most important thing that ever happened. Surely we, who believe it, could well devote one day a year to uninterrupted contemplation of the fact, and let Saturnalia fall on the winter solstice, where it belongs.   On the other hand, we make so much of the actual birth, and forget the things that make it more than just the birth of a baby (though even that is, in Walt Whitman's phrase, "miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels") -- more, even, than the birth of the greatest man who ever lived. We forget the promise to Eve of a descendant who will solve the problem of Evil; the promise to Abraham of one by whom all mankind will be blessed; the promise to Moses of a greater prophet than he, to arise from his people; and the promise to David of a Son who would be his Master. We forget about the eternal Purpose behind it all: it's like telling a story and leaving out the point. Yes, it is true that God gave us His Son, and so maybe we ought also to give gifts -- but what, and to whom? It is also true that God gave us Himself, and the only sensible response to that is to give ourselves to Him. There is nothing else that He wants from us, or, if there is something, He can take it. Only I, my ego, my heart, is truly mine to give or to withhold -- and is therefore the appropriate gift to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28090]]></link><description><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/94]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/94</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47112]]></link><description><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the urge to reach a state of peace, but we have no urge to compromise an inch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29893]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the urge to reach a state of peace, but we have no urge to compromise an inch of our territory nor do we accept our sovereignty to be impinged on,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55832]]></link><description><![CDATA[In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who excuses himself, accuses himself. [Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15460]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who excuses himself, accuses himself. [Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An executive is someone who makes a decision quickly and gets somebody else to do the work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52794]]></link><description><![CDATA[An executive is someone who makes a decision quickly and gets somebody else to do the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He cited the safety of the people because the church was dumping a large amount of traffic onto Colonial Boulevard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37458]]></link><description><![CDATA[He cited the safety of the people because the church was dumping a large amount of traffic onto Colonial Boulevard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2190]]></link><description><![CDATA[No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39516]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I applaud (NWA Head Start). They hired somebody bilingual it's a tremendous need in the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I applaud (NWA Head Start). They hired somebody bilingual it's a tremendous need in the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the dishes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43234]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both countries are convinced they're going to meet their future financing needs on the domestic markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both countries are convinced they're going to meet their future financing needs on the domestic markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,  A flash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,  A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,   Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to itand helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces -- self-denial, readiness to the cross -- they all work and help faith. Yet when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do. Not to be surprised with any thing is the substance of human wisdom; not to be surprised with death is a great part of the substance of our spiritual wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The integrity of the game is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The integrity of the game is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Independence Day with President ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Independence Day with President Clinton]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12471]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932   I suppose these are the three main dangers to which ecclesiastical developments are liable: (1) The danger of undue accommodation to natural religion or to the indolence and superstitious tendencies of human nature, from which result undue and unguarded accretions upon Christian doctrine and perversions of it. (2) There is the danger of one-sidedness by accommodation to the particular tendencies of a particular age. (3) There is the danger of an arrested development, because ecclesiastical authority acting hastily or unguardedly solidifies the one-sidedness or undue accommodation of a particular moment of the Church into a premature and unjustifiable dogma. There is, I venture to think, for all these dangers one remedy, and one remedy only, and that the most old-fashioned; and yet it is with this that is bound up all that is most true, all that is most free, all that is most spiritual in the Church. The remedy to which I refer is the continual recurrence to the original pattern, the continual appeal to antiquity and Scripture. Such an appeal limits the dogmatic authority and in a sense the whole authority of the Church. But it is by the maintenance of this appeal, and only so, that you can safeguard what is, after all, the most important thing, that is, the real power of the Church to be true to its own best spirit, to reassert the original teaching in all its freedom and largeness of application, without being trammelled and contracted by the errors and narrownesses of particular periods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64772]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9956]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The President will continue to be haunted by insinuations of cheating and corruption, and each time these stories come out, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The President will continue to be haunted by insinuations of cheating and corruption, and each time these stories come out, it obviously will not be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26334]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60553]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quicker-than-expected recovery in capital expenditure spending will probably be the biggest catalyst, if one occurs at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28349]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quicker-than-expected recovery in capital expenditure spending will probably be the biggest catalyst, if one occurs at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a big-time steal for Duquesne. He will have an opportunity to come in and change that program around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29636]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a big-time steal for Duquesne. He will have an opportunity to come in and change that program around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29636</guid></item></channel></rss>