<?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[To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26848]]></link><description><![CDATA[To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is love in search of a word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is love in search of a word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song;  So shall the fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song;  So shall the fair your handiwork peruse,   Your sonnets sure shall please--perhaps your shoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian knowledge, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian knowledge, a question whether any nation uninstructed in religion should receive instruction; or whether that, instruction should be imparted to them by a translation of the holy-books into their own language. If obedience to the will of GOD be necessary to happiness, and knowledge of his will be necessary to obedience, I know not how he that withholds this knowledge, or delays it, can be said to love his neighbour as himself. He, that voluntarily continues ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces; as to him that should extinguish the tapers of a light-house, might justly be imputed the calamities of shipwrecks. (Continued tomorrow)   ... a letter from Samuel Johnson to William Drummond of Edinburgh, 1766  July 13, 2002   Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity; and as no man is good but as he wishes the good of others, so no man can be good in the highest degree, who wishes not to others the largest measures of the greatest good. To omit for a year, or for a day, the most efficacious method of advancing Christianity [i.e., the Bible], in compliance with any purposes that terminate this side of the grave, is a crime [the like] of which I know not that the world has yet had an example.   ... a letter from Samuel Johnson to William Drummond of Edinburgh, 1766  July 14, 2002 Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The "good" man, the man whose god is righteousness, has as his life's ambition the keeping of rules and commandments and the keeping of himself uncontaminated by the world. This sounds admirable; but, as the truth of Christ showed, the whole of such living, the whole drive and ambition, the whole edifice, is self-centered. That entire process of effort must be abandoned if a man is to give himself in love to God and his fellows. He must lose his life if he is ever going to find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I'm waiting for sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I'm waiting for sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Father and His SonsA father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselves. When he failed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Father and His SonsA father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselves. When he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations, he determined to give them a practical illustration of the evils of disunion; and for this purpose he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks. When they had done so, he placed the faggot into the hands of each of them in succession, and ordered them to break it in pieces. They tried with all their strength, and were not able to do it. He next opened the faggot, took the sticks separately, one by one, and again put them into his sons' hands, upon which they broke them easily. He then addressed them in these words: My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other, you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies; but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily as these sticks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22533]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday: when I am at Milan I do not. Do the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54395]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday: when I am at Milan I do not. Do the same. Follow the custom of the church where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on education:   The devout student is the best of all students. There are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on education:   The devout student is the best of all students. There are too many who are devout, but not students. They will not accept the discipline of study and of learning, and they even look with suspicion upon the further knowledge which study brings to men. There are equally too many who are students, but not devout. They are interested too much in intellectual knowledge, and too little in the life of prayer and in the life of service of their fellow men. A man would do well to aim at being not only a student, and not only devout, but at being a devout student.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52290]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36775]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/796]]></link><description><![CDATA[To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse;  On horror's head horrors accumulate; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12015]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse;  On horror's head horrors accumulate;   Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed;    For nothing canst thou to damnation add     Greater than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932   Now what ought to have been the attitude of thoughtful Christians towards ecclesiastical authority, resulting from our Lord's whole attitude towards it? I think that the Catholic Church ought to have maintained and used ecclesiastical and sacerdotal authority, but that its maintenance and its use ought to have been accompanied with a continual fear. Because they had before them this fact, that however divinely authoritative, however securely resting on a basis of legitimate and genuine inspiration, yet the ecclesiastical authority of the Old Covenant, by no process of sudden revolution, but simply by a process of gradual development, was capable of becoming something so utterly alien in spirit from what it was intended to be, that when the Christ came, to prepare for whom and to welcome whom was the one reason for which it existed, it did in fact reject Him utterly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54983]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're smart in that aspect. We know our spots. We get to where we need to be. We press as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41777]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're smart in that aspect. We know our spots. We get to where we need to be. We press as much as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27176]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness wins the confidence of princes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness wins the confidence of princes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature abhors a moron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature abhors a moron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valencia has done an excellent job of building and guiding a very thoughtful and effective diversity and inclusion strategy at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valencia has done an excellent job of building and guiding a very thoughtful and effective diversity and inclusion strategy at our company. Her long history of service at BellSouth and in the community combined with her breadth of business knowledge makes her a tremendous asset to this Board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air?  Choose thou, whatever suits the line:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air?  Choose thou, whatever suits the line:   Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,    Call me Lalage, or Doris,     Only, only, call me thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43500]]></link><description><![CDATA[After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18]]></link><description><![CDATA[For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My illusions range from romance to rowdiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32273]]></link><description><![CDATA[My illusions range from romance to rowdiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those only deserve a monument who do not need one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦'If this trend continues, we believe it could encourage customers to either rebook at lower room rates or at least ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33082]]></link><description><![CDATA[ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦'If this trend continues, we believe it could encourage customers to either rebook at lower room rates or at least hold out until the last minute to book rooms,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 My God, I love Thee -- not because I hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 My God, I love Thee -- not because I hope for heaven thereby, Nor yet because who love Thee not must die eternally. Thou, O my Jesus, Thou didst me upon the Cross embrace; For me didst nails and spear endure, and manifold disgrace. Why, then why, O blessed Jesus Christ, should I not love Thee well? Not for the hope of winning heaven, or of escaping hell--  Not with the hope of gaining aught, nor seeking a reward, But as Thyself hast loved me, O ever-loving Lord! E'en then I love Thee and will love, and in Thy praise will sing Solely because Thou art my God and my eternal King.   ... Anonymous Latin Hymn (Edward Caswall, translator)  January 29, 2001   No man desires anything so eagerly as God desires to bring men to the knowledge of Himself. God is always ready, but we are very unready. God is near us, but we are far from Him. God is within, and we are without. God is friendly -- we are estranged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman's love is writ in water, Woman's faith is traced in sand.   - Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton) of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman's love is writ in water, Woman's faith is traced in sand.   - Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton) of Kincaldie,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Especially with the murder, people are wondering what's going on. I don't even want to really say anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Especially with the murder, people are wondering what's going on. I don't even want to really say anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know that I'd really want to do this full time, ... I enjoy my family and cutting the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38828]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know that I'd really want to do this full time, ... I enjoy my family and cutting the grass at home. There's more in life than golf. I enjoy the game but I don't know if I could do it every day. If I go practice, I practice for an hour. The guys out here practice for six hours. I couldn't do that. I've never had the length, I'm not that strong of a guy. I hit it 250, 260, I hit it very straight and I'm not a bad putter. You have to do this all the time to get the nerves. I don't know if I have the nerves for the next three days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2432]]></link><description><![CDATA[America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's my people. That's the way that our fans react. For us, that's normal. I know over here, it's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30327]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's my people. That's the way that our fans react. For us, that's normal. I know over here, it's not typical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51625]]></link><description><![CDATA[No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become  Old in their youth, and die ere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48767]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become  Old in their youth, and die ere middle age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53258]]></link><description><![CDATA[In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53258</guid></item></channel></rss>