<?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[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Washington! thrice glorious name, What due rewards can man decree--  Empires are far below thy aim,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61243]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Washington! thrice glorious name, What due rewards can man decree--  Empires are far below thy aim,   And scepters have no charms for thee;    Virtue alone has your regards,     And she must be your great reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no bad feelings from him and no bad feelings from me. He said 'I'm sorry. It's just one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33150]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no bad feelings from him and no bad feelings from me. He said 'I'm sorry. It's just one of those deals.' I said I understand. We've been good friends for a lot of years. I think he's a quality individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comparisons are odious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comparisons are odious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul  Under the ribs of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul  Under the ribs of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot flea a stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50129]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot flea a stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steroids are bad for sports, bad for players, bad for the young people who hold athletes up as role models. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steroids are bad for sports, bad for players, bad for the young people who hold athletes up as role models.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it. -All 's Well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55713]]></link><description><![CDATA['T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't get any offense going. I thought we did a decent job of getting some good shots, but you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't get any offense going. I thought we did a decent job of getting some good shots, but you have to be able to finish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light tomorrow with today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light tomorrow with today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't get enough information from the investigating agency to proceed with the case. We didn't have good enough information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31445]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't get enough information from the investigating agency to proceed with the case. We didn't have good enough information to go before a jury and prove guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so incredibly special. Children come to swim, bike and run and leaving feeling confident and having had a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28694]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so incredibly special. Children come to swim, bike and run and leaving feeling confident and having had a good time. They also leave knowing that people care about making the world just a little bit better and they're a part of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small. [Fr., J'avais vu les grands, mais je n'avais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small. [Fr., J'avais vu les grands, mais je n'avais pas vu les petits.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36885]]></link><description><![CDATA[The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. [Ger., Ach! aus dem Gluck entwickelt oft sich Schmerz.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. [Ger., Ach! aus dem Gluck entwickelt oft sich Schmerz.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no knowledge that is not power ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47917]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no knowledge that is not power]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53104]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of those things that's not 100 percent of one or the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37828]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of those things that's not 100 percent of one or the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty, equality, fraternity. [Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty, equality, fraternity. [Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can take away a man's gods, but only to give himothers in return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27437]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can take away a man's gods, but only to give himothers in return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51348]]></link><description><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad to be out here. We signed for what, 90 minutes. I'd stay as long as needed to help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34636]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad to be out here. We signed for what, 90 minutes. I'd stay as long as needed to help out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of theeducability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21131]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of theeducability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressedourselves to this problem before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And last, the crown of a' my grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48689]]></link><description><![CDATA[And last, the crown of a' my grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[people who are willing to kill animals just to satisfy their greed for meat are ultimately, really, killing themselves by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2650]]></link><description><![CDATA[people who are willing to kill animals just to satisfy their greed for meat are ultimately, really, killing themselves by their cruelty . . . that is God at workhttp://www.egroups.com/messages/christianveg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance. But the spirit of prayer is for all times and occasions; it is a lamp that is to be always burning, a light to be ever shining: everything calls for it; everything is to be done in it and governed by it, because it is and means and wills nothing else but the totality of the soul -- not doing this or that, but wholly ... given up to God to be where and what and how He pleases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/287]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the last 14 months we have been pumping gas to the national grid but the government is not paying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30570]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the last 14 months we have been pumping gas to the national grid but the government is not paying our dues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call a spade a spade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call a spade a spade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5415]]></link><description><![CDATA[If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14269]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to carefully control our total exposure. We're still going to write business in Manhattan, but not near known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42583]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to carefully control our total exposure. We're still going to write business in Manhattan, but not near known terror targets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money makes the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money makes the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think countries in the region are ruled by constitutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think countries in the region are ruled by constitutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a courtesy visit. He is a very pleasant and intelligent man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a courtesy visit. He is a very pleasant and intelligent man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1356]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we get out in the open court, there's some unbelievable things the girls have done this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we get out in the open court, there's some unbelievable things the girls have done this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540   The attitude of Jesus to the Jewish law was singularly free and unembarrassed. He made full use of it as an impressive statement of high ethical ideals; even its ritual practices He treated with perfect tolerance where they did not conflict with fundamental moral obligations. From Pharisaic formalism He appealed to the relative simplicity of the venerable written Law. But again from the written Law itself He appealed to the basic rights and duties of humanity: the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath; the Law might permit the dissolution of marriage, but there was something more deeply rooted in the nature of things which forbade it; the [law of retaliation], the central principle of legal justice, must go overboard in the interest of the holy impulse to love your neighbor, not merely as yourself, but as God has loved you. Such freehanded dealing meant that the whole notion of morality as a code of rules, with sanctions of rewards and punishments, was abandoned. But the average Christian was slow to see this implication. For instance, Jesus had taken fasting out of the class of meritorious acts, and given it a place only as the fitting and spontaneous expression of certain spiritual states. This is what an early authoritative catechism of the Church made of His teaching: "Let not your fast be made with the hypocrites, for they fast on Monday and Thursday; ye therefore shall fast on Wednesday and Friday." It sounds ludicrous, but we may ask, Was it not on some very similar principle that the Church did actually carry through its reconstruction of "religious observance"? And a Church which so perverted Christ's treatment of the ritual law proved itself almost equally incapable of understanding His drastic revision of the moral law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are a furry gnome and we feed you too much! Dorothy to Sophia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17601]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a furry gnome and we feed you too much! Dorothy to Sophia]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other children across the face with it. Man, I think my heart almost broke.  Later the boy came up and offered to give me the toy. This was too much! I reached out my hand, but then he ran away. I chased him down and took the enema bag. He cried a little, but that's the way of these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11761</guid></item></channel></rss>