<?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[For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41203]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58408]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10683]]></link><description><![CDATA[And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796   Here you have the true reason why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796   Here you have the true reason why revenge or vengeance is not allowed to man: it is because vengeance can only work in the evil or disordered properties of fallen nature. But man, being himself a part of fallen nature and subject to its disordered properties, is not allowed to work with them, because it would be stirring up evil in himself, and that is his sin of wrath or revenge. God therefore reserves all vengeance to Himself, not because wrathful revenge is a temper or quality that can have any place in the holy Deity, but because the holy supernatural Deity, being free from all the properties of nature, whence partial love and hatred spring, and being in Himself nothing but an infinity of love, wisdom, and goodness, He alone knows how to overrule the disorders of nature, and so to repay evil with evil, that the highest good may be promoted by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't understand I felt I had accomplished all I wanted as a player in football. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41330]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't understand I felt I had accomplished all I wanted as a player in football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55380]]></link><description><![CDATA[No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd like everybody to come to celebrate her life. Some of her friends are going to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42669]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd like everybody to come to celebrate her life. Some of her friends are going to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Augustine shows clearly the religious character of sin. Sin for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Augustine shows clearly the religious character of sin. Sin for him is not a moral failure; it is not even disobedience. Disobedience is a consequence but not the cause. The cause is: turning away from God, and from God as the highest good, as the love with which God loves Himself, through us. For this reason, since sin has this character -- if you say "sins", it is easily dissolved into moral sins; but sin is first of all basically the power of turning away from God. For this very reason, no moral remedy is possible. Only one remedy is possible: return to God. But this of course is possible only in the power of God, and this power is lost. This is the state of man under the conditions of existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.  [Ger., Es tragt Verstand und rechter Sinn,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45236]]></link><description><![CDATA[With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.  [Ger., Es tragt Verstand und rechter Sinn,   Mit wenig Kunst sich selber vor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the exception a few individuals, most of the defendants prefer to remain silent when asked to enter plea of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28425]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the exception a few individuals, most of the defendants prefer to remain silent when asked to enter plea of guilty or not guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's disconcerting, ... These are supposed to be the crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me de la crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me of forces. If their procurement officers were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's disconcerting, ... These are supposed to be the crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me de la crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me of forces. If their procurement officers were taking kickbacks, it could be happening anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21214]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time we enjoy wasting is usually a good indicator of our real values… The best things in life feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time we enjoy wasting is usually a good indicator of our real values… The best things in life feel like we feel when we waste our time!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17481]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10487]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There but for the grace of God go I ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18077]]></link><description><![CDATA[There but for the grace of God go I]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present condition of fame is merely fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present condition of fame is merely fashion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47551]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to forget someone from the past when that person has been the one you ever wanted in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63232]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to forget someone from the past when that person has been the one you ever wanted in your future...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43613]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more cargo coming in than last year, largely because of the end of textile and apparel quotas, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more cargo coming in than last year, largely because of the end of textile and apparel quotas, but it's flowing much more smoothly from the ships to the stores than we saw in 2004,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in the reaction of others that perfection is found in the flawed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46242]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in the reaction of others that perfection is found in the flawed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/354]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am going to seek the great Perhaps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am going to seek the great Perhaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33661]]></link><description><![CDATA[After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into battle for the right reasons, ... The fact that Americans are expressing these doubts shows that the president is losing his ability to lead. If the president refuses to resign for the sake of the nation, I believe he should be impeached and face Senate trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   Eternal life is not an unending continuance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   Eternal life is not an unending continuance of this life--that would, perhaps, be Hell--but Eternal Life is quite a different life, divine, not mundane; perfect, not earthly; true life, not corrupt half-life. We cannot form a conception of Eternal Life. What we imagine is ever simply of the earth, temporal, worldly. Nor could we know anything about our eternal life if it had not appeared in Jesus Christ. In him we realize that we were created for the eternal life. If we ask, what is this eternal life? what sense is there in thinking about it if we can have no conception of it?, the answer is, "It is life with God, in God, from God; life in perfect fellowship." Therefore it is a life in love, it is love itself. It is a life without the nature of death and sin, hence without sorrow, pain, anxiety, care, misery. To know this suffices to make one rejoice in eternal life. If there were no eternal life, this life of time would be without meaning, goal, or purpose, without significance, without seriousness and without joy. It would be nothing. That our life does not end in nothing, but that eternal life awaits us, is the glad message of Jesus Christ. He came to give us this promise as a light in this dark world. A Christian is a man who has become certain of eternal life through Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to set boundaries and say no. The biggest challenge with part-time work is that the work creeps to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to set boundaries and say no. The biggest challenge with part-time work is that the work creeps to full time. Nobody else is going to manage that for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64535]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mob is the mother of tyrants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mob is the mother of tyrants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43255]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very common story. They're two very hard-working parents who have careers. They have aspirations. They're working extremely hard, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very common story. They're two very hard-working parents who have careers. They have aspirations. They're working extremely hard, but they have children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45033</guid></item></channel></rss>