<?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[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   All angels, all saints, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   All angels, all saints, all the devils, all the world shall know all the deeds that ever thou didest, though thou have been shriven of them and contrite. But this knowledge shall be no shame to thee if that thou be saved, but rather a witness to God -- right as we read of the deeds of Mary Magdalene [as] her witness to God and not to her reproof.   ... Middle English Sermons  July 20, 2002 Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566   Our union with God -- his presence with us, in which our aloneness is banished and the meaning and full purpose of human existence is realized -- consists chiefly in a conversational relationship with God while we are each consistently and deeply engaged as his friend and colaborer in the affairs of the kingdom of the heavens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles   The desire for unity has haunted me all my life through; I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles   The desire for unity has haunted me all my life through; I have never been able to substitute any desire for that, or to accept any of the different schemes for satisfaction of that men have desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29573]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like champagne. When you listen to it, you start to sway with the tune. It works as well today ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31583]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like champagne. When you listen to it, you start to sway with the tune. It works as well today as it ever did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7526]]></link><description><![CDATA[A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64379]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me playing and wanting to start would be selfish and not a team thing. If the timing isn't there, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me playing and wanting to start would be selfish and not a team thing. If the timing isn't there, you don't have a proper working machine. You've got a Ferrari with a Nissan engine and you can't have that now. It's like wearing white socks with dress pants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or thepain of regret or disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22611]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or thepain of regret or disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through  And keep their impious turbans on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through  And keep their impious turbans on without   Good morrow to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halcyon days. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Halcyon days. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better for the patents. It's easier when they have a problem to get in to see a doctor more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better for the patents. It's easier when they have a problem to get in to see a doctor more quickly. If there are problems on weekends, there's always somebody around to help them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24857]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good intentions are at least, the seed of good actions; and every one ought to sow them, and leave It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good intentions are at least, the seed of good actions; and every one ought to sow them, and leave It to the soil and the seasons whether He or any other gather they fruit]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting men are the city's fortress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting men are the city's fortress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is fit only for the wise but is found mostly in fools ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is fit only for the wise but is found mostly in fools]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrell's a good run blocker. He's very stout. He's very intelligent. He makes a lot of rookie mistakes right now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terrell's a good run blocker. He's very stout. He's very intelligent. He makes a lot of rookie mistakes right now, which you would probably expect him to do. But he's getting more and more refined all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.   ... John Henry Newman  September 10, 2000   Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.   ... Luis Palau  September 11, 2000   Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that unites us; for the peace accorded us this day; for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth, and our friendly helpers in this foreign isle [Samoa]... Give us courage, gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not be, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.   ... Robert Louis Stevenson  September 12, 2000   Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence: it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy the fridge!' `Make Jell-O!', all that horrible nutrition that came up because of instant pudding, Jell-O, fish sticks, TV dinners, all of that that I had before dismissed as the death of our culture -- I realized that housewives wanted these things, because they wanted time back, ... A washing machine gave them time to do something else. It gave them time to read a book. ... A woman didn't want to cook all day. These things that were sold to Americans were actually a gift, in a very strange way. I really enjoyed having to blow that notion out of my head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13354]]></link><description><![CDATA[An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15428]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea shops]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64337]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64220]]></link><description><![CDATA[In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worker is being treated at the hospital for non-life threatening injuries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worker is being treated at the hospital for non-life threatening injuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very happy to have done two triple Axels, I wasn't thinking about the championship but was just focusing on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very happy to have done two triple Axels, I wasn't thinking about the championship but was just focusing on the two triple Axels. I'd give myself 95 out of 100 for today's skate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60544]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As regards rap music, I believe that the "c" is silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20138]]></link><description><![CDATA[As regards rap music, I believe that the "c" is silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary   We cannot divide either man or the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary   We cannot divide either man or the universe... into two parts which move on different planes and have no vital relations; we cannot... limit the divine reaction against sin, or the experiences through which, in any case whatever, sin is brought home to man, to the purely spiritual sphere. Every sin is a sin of the indivisible human being, and the divine reaction against it expresses itself to conscience through the indivisible frame of that world, at once natural and spiritual, in which man lives. We cannot distribute evils into the two classes of physical and moral, and subsequently investigate the relation between them: if we could, it would be of no service here. What we have to understand is that when a man sins he does something in which his whole being participates, and that the reaction of God against his sin is a reaction in which he is conscious (or might be conscious) that the whole system of things is in arms against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no Past, so long as Books shall live! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4547]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25751]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25751</guid></item></channel></rss>