<?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 John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  Though natural men, who have induced secondary and figurative consideration, have found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  Though natural men, who have induced secondary and figurative consideration, have found out this... emblematical use of sleep, that it should be a representation of death, God, who wrought and perfected his work, before Nature began, (for Nature was but his Apprentice, to learn in the first seven days, and now is his foreman, and works next under him) God, I say, intended sleep only for the refreshing of man by bodily rest, and not for a figure of death, for he intended not death itself then. But Man having induced death upon himself, God hath taken Man's Creature, death, into his hand, and mended it, and whereas it hath in itself a fearfull form and aspect, so that Man is afraid of his own Creature, God presents it to him, in a familiar, in an assiduous, in an agreeable and acceptable form, in sleep, that so when he awakes from sleep and says to himself, shall I be no otherwise when I am dead, than I was even now, when I was asleep, he may be ashamed of his waking dreams, and of his Melancholique fancying out a horrid and an affrightful figure of that death which is so like sleep. As then we need sleep to live out our threescore and ten years, so we need death, to live that life which we cannot out-live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very tough to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30335]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very tough to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This concern for the rights and liberties and welfare of the backward peoples is rooted in the Christian ethic of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7193]]></link><description><![CDATA[This concern for the rights and liberties and welfare of the backward peoples is rooted in the Christian ethic of justice and of the duty to help and protect the weak, upon the Christian valuation of man as of spiritual dignity and worth, as made for freedom, as a potential child of God. These principles have no validity unless the Christian view of man be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59710]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self.BENEDICT XVI, ANGELUS, Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Sunday, 22 May 2005]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51542]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6565]]></link><description><![CDATA[When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -Albert Einstein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -Albert Einstein.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good, to forgive; Best to forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good, to forgive; Best to forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14136]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi nimis ex vero traxere,  Acram sui memoriam relinquunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50527]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hours that make us happy make us wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hours that make us happy make us wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an urban forest, there is strength in diversity - in age and in species. Seventy-year-old willow oaks are all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41790]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an urban forest, there is strength in diversity - in age and in species. Seventy-year-old willow oaks are all going to decline within a decade of each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61410]]></link><description><![CDATA[You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and powerful. Who can determine what would be his future conduct? Tell me, if you were to become a lion, what sort of a lion would you be?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None so deaf as those who will not hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18981]]></link><description><![CDATA[None so deaf as those who will not hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This additional step will provide an extra layer of protection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31105]]></link><description><![CDATA[This additional step will provide an extra layer of protection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only religion is kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only religion is kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45279]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not know who planted the explosive device and cannot speculate at this time, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34022]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not know who planted the explosive device and cannot speculate at this time,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But monument themselves memorials need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43038]]></link><description><![CDATA[But monument themselves memorials need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;  For he, by geometric scale,   Could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24528]]></link><description><![CDATA[In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;  For he, by geometric scale,   Could take the size of pots of ale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65772]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58849]]></link><description><![CDATA[My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its conseq]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to come across as a positive person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to come across as a positive person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60042]]></link><description><![CDATA[To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12343]]></link><description><![CDATA[American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6016]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful?  Or is the adder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23127]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful?  Or is the adder better than the eel   Because his painted skin contents the eye?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   It is not possible ever to exhaust the mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   It is not possible ever to exhaust the mind of the Scriptures. It is a well that has no bottom.   St. John Chrysostom  September 14, 2002 Feast of the Holy Cross    Learned men and great scholars have devoted great effort and prolonged study to the Holy Scriptures... employing the gifts which God gives to every person who has the use of reason. This knowledge is good... but it does not bring with it any spiritual experience of God, for these graces are granted only to those who have a great love for Him. This fountain of love issues from our Lord alone, and no stranger may approach it. But knowledge of this kind is common to good and bad alike, since it can be acquired without love, ... and men of a worldly life are sometimes more knowledgeable than many true Christians although they do not possess this love. St. Paul describes this kind of knowledge: "If I had full knowledge of all things and knew all secrets, but had no love, I should be nothing." Some people who possess this knowledge become proud and misuse it in order to increase their personal reputation, worldly rank, honours and riches, when they should use it humbly to the praise of God and for the benefit of their fellow Christians in true charity. St. Paul says of this kind of knowledge: "Knowledge by itself stirs the heart with pride, but united to love it turns to edification." By itself this knowledge is like water, tasteless and cold. But if those who have it will offer it humbly to our Lord and ask for His grace, He will turn the water into wine with His blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50392]]></link><description><![CDATA[While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early-onset depression is thought to begin in the teenage years but in fact it is turning out to be as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early-onset depression is thought to begin in the teenage years but in fact it is turning out to be as early as we can begin to measure it. We ought to be thinking much more about who are the children who already have these disorders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We usually start off slowly. We usually play better in the second half, but we just played well in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32111]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually start off slowly. We usually play better in the second half, but we just played well in the second quarter and they really struggled shooting the ball. Obviously, that made things easier for us. We didn't change anything. We went with our game plan. We just did a better job executing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount offear as the person who regularly takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount offear as the person who regularly takes risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13392</guid></item></channel></rss>