<?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 Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556   One of the catchwords in contemporary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556   One of the catchwords in contemporary Protestantism is that religion must aid man in "becoming human" or even "truly human" -- whatever that means -- and the "model" is Christ. Take the "obvious things" about Christ as listed by a contemporary minister:  He was a popular and controversial preacher; He gathered a group of followers; He spent most of his time with the disinherited; He taught with authority; He never married; He never (so far as we know) held a job; He did not participate in public affairs; He did not have income, property, or an address; He was in bitter and frequent conflict with the religious and political authorities; He seemed to expect that the world would be eminently, radically, and supernaturally transformed; He attacked the traditions and values of his own people; He practically forced the authorities to prosecute and execute him. There is nothing exclusively religious, much less Christian, in this description, which, with a few exceptions, might apply also to Socrates or to "Che" Guevara. I asked many socially oriented ministers why they were Christians at all. Some said through faith, and some said that Christianity gave them courage and the motivation to endure (but so do other beliefs). Some said they hardly knew and that, if another, more acceptable, ideology came along, they would embrace it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make an efficient choice in moments of indecision, you establish more effectiveness within a given time span, saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6078]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make an efficient choice in moments of indecision, you establish more effectiveness within a given time span, saving energy and stress. That's a time shift. William Jennings Bryan Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26844]]></link><description><![CDATA[You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You hit first or second, you know they're going to come at you because they don't want anybody on base ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35271]]></link><description><![CDATA[You hit first or second, you know they're going to come at you because they don't want anybody on base when he comes up. If he comes up with runners on base, they want to pitch around him and go after Holliday or myself. Having him in there changes the whole dynamic of the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14491]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will miss him as a distinguished religious figure, who devoted his life to defending the values of peace, freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will miss him as a distinguished religious figure, who devoted his life to defending the values of peace, freedom and equality. He defended the rights of Palestinians, their freedom and independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46462]]></link><description><![CDATA[To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55528]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12653]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;  No harp like my own could so cheerily play,   And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just stupid and unacceptable to the Mariners. This has sullied the reputation of the Seattle Mariners, and for that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31916]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just stupid and unacceptable to the Mariners. This has sullied the reputation of the Seattle Mariners, and for that it's terribly disappointing. We'll try to eradicate this, and we'll take strong internal action against the transgressors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45290]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these?  Surely the heart that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these?  Surely the heart that conceived it sought   Heart's ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll put that in my considering cap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll put that in my considering cap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get rid of the volatility factor the stock option expense creates, the earnings growth was actually very good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38454]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get rid of the volatility factor the stock option expense creates, the earnings growth was actually very good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. -King Henry VIII. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Stag in the Ox-StallA stag, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1600]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Stag in the Ox-StallA stag, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hid himself in a shed among the oxen. An Ox gave him this kindly warning: O unhappy creature! why should you thus, of your own accord, incur destruction and trust yourself in the house of your enemy?' The Stag replied: Only allow me, friend, to stay where I am, and I will undertake to find some favorable opportunity of effecting my escape. At the approach of the evening the herdsman came to feed his cattle, but did not see the Stag; and even the farm-bailiff with several laborers passed through the shed and failed to notice him. The Stag, congratulating himself on his safety, began to express his sincere thanks to the Oxen who had kindly helped him in the hour of need. One of them again answered him: We indeed wish you well, but the danger is not over. There is one other yet to pass through the shed, who has as it were a hundred eyes, and until he has come and gone, your life is still in peril. At that moment the master himself entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been properly fed, he went up to their racks and cried out: Why is there such a scarcity of fodder? There is not half enough straw for them to lie on. Those lazy fellows have not even swept the cobwebs away. While he thus examined everything in turn, he spied the tips of the antlers of the Stag peeping out of the straw. Then summoning his laborers, he ordered that the Stag should be seized and killed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65636]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't negotiate the deal. We're just the matchmakers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't negotiate the deal. We're just the matchmakers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's been pretty clear that we need to find a solution and need to look at what the problem is, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36572]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's been pretty clear that we need to find a solution and need to look at what the problem is, and make sure we're not hurting good employers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12859]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years;  But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14925]]></link><description><![CDATA["All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years;  But to him who tries and fails and dies,   I give great honor and glory and tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general sessions did a great job in presenting a top down view of the industry as a whole, managing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general sessions did a great job in presenting a top down view of the industry as a whole, managing to put all the pieces together in a perspective relative to each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10191]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse  The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failing to plan is planning to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failing to plan is planning to fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9500]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The valuable assistance of Germany in this matter demonstrates that the war on terrorism is global, and together we will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The valuable assistance of Germany in this matter demonstrates that the war on terrorism is global, and together we will work with our allies to ensure that terrorist acts are prevented and that justice is done,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20700]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon our society than the others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make the plough go before the horse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45263]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make the plough go before the horse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart  To keep a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart  To keep a dream or grave apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No brain is stronger than its weakest think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59216]]></link><description><![CDATA[No brain is stronger than its weakest think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35167</guid></item></channel></rss>