<?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[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  The denominations, churches, sects, are sociological groups whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  The denominations, churches, sects, are sociological groups whose principle of differentiation is to be sought in their conformity to the order of social classes and castes. It would not be true to affirm that the denominations are not religious groups with religious purposes; but it is true that they represent the accommodation of religion to the caste system. They are emblems, therefore, of the victory of the world over the church, of the secularization of Christianity, of the church's sanction of that divisiveness which the church's gospel condemns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, you know, when I talked about the $87 billion, I made a mistake in how I talk about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, you know, when I talked about the $87 billion, I made a mistake in how I talk about the war. But the president made a mistake in invading Iraq. Which is worse?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame;  Ev'ything thet's done inhuman   Injers all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame;  Ev'ything thet's done inhuman   Injers all on 'em the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all of this, first as a man and a Serb, then as a father, brother and son, and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57801]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all of this, first as a man and a Serb, then as a father, brother and son, and only then as the president of the Serb Republic, I have to say that these nine days of July of the Srebrenica tragedy represent a black page in the history of the Serb people. [in the first official recognition of the massacre]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3122]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They make a desert and they call it peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51671]]></link><description><![CDATA[They make a desert and they call it peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3655]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. [Lat., Magister artis ingenique largitor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. [Lat., Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253  The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think for yourself whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As along as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26790]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Whose name was writ in water!" What large laughter Among the immortals when that word was brought!  Then when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43651]]></link><description><![CDATA["Whose name was writ in water!" What large laughter Among the immortals when that word was brought!  Then when his fiery spirit rose flaming after,   High toward the topmost heaven of heavens up-caught!    "All hail! our younger brother!" Shakespeare said,     And Dante nodded his imperial head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hereby resign this office of president of the United States. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64260]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that brings good newes knockes hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   We must be willing to accept the bitter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God. It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves. We cannot suffer well unless we see Christ everywhere, both in suffering and in the charity of those who come to the aid of our affliction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that we are operating appropriately and effectively in the current setting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that we are operating appropriately and effectively in the current setting,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26174]]></link><description><![CDATA[No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25501]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing you can do is get good at being you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing you can do is get good at being you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter: I say she never did invent this letter;  This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23009]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter: I say she never did invent this letter;  This is a man's invention and his hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr The Mother sits by the rough-hewn byre where her Baby smiles, and the secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr The Mother sits by the rough-hewn byre where her Baby smiles, and the secret fire shines on her face. Her hand rests by an iron spike from the wood thrust high  ("The nails in His hands!" ) An open chink in the rude, cold shed lets in the sky, and the Star that led shepherds and kings pours down its light: a silver shaft through the frosty night  ("The spear in His side!") Her hands reach out, as to push away the cross-crowned hill and the bloody day; they touch a rough, unyielding wall: the stable side, of stone piled tall  ("The stone -- rolled away!").]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of that stuff about James Bond, that's Hollywood. You don't want anyone standing out in the intelligence business. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30314]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of that stuff about James Bond, that's Hollywood. You don't want anyone standing out in the intelligence business. You want someone nondescript. The ideal spy is 5-foot-6 and kind of dumpy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26818]]></link><description><![CDATA[We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet:  One little hour! and then, away they speed   On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam,    To meet no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not disturb the sleeping dog. [It., Non stuzzicare il can che dorme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not disturb the sleeping dog. [It., Non stuzzicare il can che dorme.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We may look into a church, almost any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We may look into a church, almost any church, and discover someone who, though he is offered a gospel of love, must subtly convert it into a gospel of hate before he can receive it. The gospel of love -- with its emphasis upon brotherhood, equality before God, the dignity of every human being, and man's social responsibility toward man -- does not satisfy the lack that he urgently feels. That calls for something altogether different, for an assurance that he is superior, that he is right where others are wrong -- a kind of cosmic teacher's pet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't forthe government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21551]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't forthe government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11865]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor is he solicitous about fine and fashionable apparel; aspiring rather after robes of divine light, and the raiment of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor is he solicitous about fine and fashionable apparel; aspiring rather after robes of divine light, and the raiment of glorified bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately in groups that deal with politics, membership gets bigger when we are close to an election then sort of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately in groups that deal with politics, membership gets bigger when we are close to an election then sort of drops off in a non-election year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9810]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind. [Lat., Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra  Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hayley had two strikes on her, and I told her she needed to just center up. And she ended up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hayley had two strikes on her, and I told her she needed to just center up. And she ended up with a double.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from us. But fairness and balance are possible. Not stereotyping people we write about is possible. We can be skeptical without being cynical,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33592]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom and dad and children who have lost everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37120]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Describing an opposing team: Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Describing an opposing team: Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25837]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60741]]></link><description><![CDATA[People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55610]]></link><description><![CDATA[A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' case at once poses us a problem. If the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? Men are fools, perhaps; but hardly so foolish as that. The direct inference from black to white, from evil flower to virtuous root, from senseless work to a workman infinitely wise, staggers belief. The spectacle of the universe as revealed by experience can never have been the ground of religion: it must have always been something in spite of which religion, acquired from a different source, was held.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though they rushed back and forth across the country on the slightest pretext, gathering kicks along the way, the real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though they rushed back and forth across the country on the slightest pretext, gathering kicks along the way, the real journey was inward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin;  And therefore no true saint allows,   They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26557]]></link><description><![CDATA['Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin;  And therefore no true saint allows,   They shall be suffer'd to espouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good men prefer to be accountable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good men prefer to be accountable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51187]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64900]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64900</guid></item></channel></rss>