<?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[You have... the Gospel written upon vellum; it deserveth to be set with diamonds, except that the heart of man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8434]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have... the Gospel written upon vellum; it deserveth to be set with diamonds, except that the heart of man were a fitter repository for it.  ... The Colloquies of Erasmus  February 13, 1999  Faith is the source of energy in the struggle of life, but life still remains a battle which is continually renewed upon ever-new fronts. For every threatening abyss that is closed, another yawning gulf appears. The truth is -- and this is the conclusion of the whole matter -- the Kingdom of God is within us. But we must let our light shine before men in confident and untiring labor that they may see our good works and praise our Father in Heaven. The final ends of all humanity are hidden within His hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, the compute grid is well understood. But much less time has been devoted to getting data where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38328]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, the compute grid is well understood. But much less time has been devoted to getting data where it needs to be, when it needs to be there, as well as to how this process is managed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very mudsills of society. . . . We call them slaves. . . . But I will not characterize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very mudsills of society. . . . We call them slaves. . . . But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is a lot like a game of tennis — those who serve well usually end up winning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is a lot like a game of tennis — those who serve well usually end up winning]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tried to keep Sastre up front ahead of the climb, where it all exploded, ... Of course, it would've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40104]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tried to keep Sastre up front ahead of the climb, where it all exploded, ... Of course, it would've been more fun if we'd had a rider in the break, but I'm pretty satisfied with the fact that we had three guys in the second group with all the big favourites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59965]]></link><description><![CDATA[I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23934]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23323]]></link><description><![CDATA[They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers of indigent persons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63165]]></link><description><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't throw a good ball, ... ...That's the sort of turnover you can't give up at crucial times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32359]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't throw a good ball, ... ...That's the sort of turnover you can't give up at crucial times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hmm, I do want to perform in Turin a little bit, but not being able to do so doesn't upset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hmm, I do want to perform in Turin a little bit, but not being able to do so doesn't upset me all that much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by night. [Fr., Car il n'est si beau jour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11139]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by night. [Fr., Car il n'est si beau jour qui n'amene sa nuit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51399]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very excited about these stem cells. We're really on the cusp of making some big leaps forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28548]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very excited about these stem cells. We're really on the cusp of making some big leaps forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The numbers were right on target, but you got [the price of] oil taking off, approaching $26 a barrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The numbers were right on target, but you got [the price of] oil taking off, approaching $26 a barrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Theologically, we have been discovering anew that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Theologically, we have been discovering anew that the Church is not an appendage to the Gospel: it is itself a part of the Gospel. The Gospel cannot be separated from that new people of God in which its nature is to be made manifest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People constantly speak of "the government" doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47512]]></link><description><![CDATA[People constantly speak of "the government" doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21384]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He competes all the time and is always aware of everything around him. And he never gives up on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30069]]></link><description><![CDATA[He competes all the time and is always aware of everything around him. And he never gives up on the puck. Now he has to mature and adjust to being a professional. Everything is a little faster, the shooters shoot harder and there are more games than in college.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty is another's ugliness; one man's wisdom is another's folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59997]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty is another's ugliness; one man's wisdom is another's folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing has become America's tragic theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing has become America's tragic theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh--  To join blest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh--  To join blest spirits in celestial lands!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65413]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3818]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6916]]></link><description><![CDATA[A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65226]]></link><description><![CDATA[I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Christ, and therefore with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Christ, and therefore with a difference, and to be able to explain, or at least to state, the reason and cause of the difference to men who see it... His preaching is essentially private conversation, and has at the back of it facts, facts of a life which explain and illustrate and enforce his words... It is such missionary work, done consciously and deliberately as missionary, that the world needs today. Everybody, Christian and pagan alike, respects such work; and, when it is so done, men wonder, and inquire into the secret of a life which they instinctively admire and covet for themselves... The spirit which inspires love of others and efforts after their well-being, both in body and soul, they cannot but admire and covet -- unless, indeed, seeing that it would reform their own lives, they dread and hate it, because they do not desire to be reformed. In either case, it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shelters here are less than comfortable, and poor sanitation can develop quickly. Residents who decide to stay in the county, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shelters here are less than comfortable, and poor sanitation can develop quickly. Residents who decide to stay in the county, even those who go to local shelters, are risking their health and safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has certainly been an exceptional year. The index surged to record highs that no one had expected. High oil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28925]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has certainly been an exceptional year. The index surged to record highs that no one had expected. High oil prices played a pivotal role in the market's magnificent run, as they did in stock markets in neighboring oil-rich Gulf States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the Thing that I was born to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11680]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the Thing that I was born to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29285]]></link><description><![CDATA[These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a huge step forward, and it's going to make it easier for all city employees because they are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33679]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a huge step forward, and it's going to make it easier for all city employees because they are going to know what is expected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55125]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh I kept the first for another dayYet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if should ever come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh I kept the first for another dayYet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if should ever come back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your bottom line starts with your front line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your bottom line starts with your front line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22663</guid></item></channel></rss>