<?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[Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13453]]></link><description><![CDATA[People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62322]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, and tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an economic as well as an environmental catastrophe. Since 1995, businesses related to delta fishing have lost $4 billion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35314]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an economic as well as an environmental catastrophe. Since 1995, businesses related to delta fishing have lost $4 billion -- boat dealers, marinas, restaurants, tackle shops -- everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abundance, like want, ruins many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance, like want, ruins many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails toalways reach my destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21780]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails toalways reach my destination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired-you quit when the gorilla is tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired-you quit when the gorilla is tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no business living through that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no business living through that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concerning perfect blessed ness which consists in a vision of God. [Lat., Circa beatitudinem perfectam, quae in Dei visione consistit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concerning perfect blessed ness which consists in a vision of God. [Lat., Circa beatitudinem perfectam, quae in Dei visione consistit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64527]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met Billy Goldenberg, my musical director and composer, who's earned 32 Emmy nominations by the way, in 1981. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met Billy Goldenberg, my musical director and composer, who's earned 32 Emmy nominations by the way, in 1981.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1083]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's clear from extensive research is that most people do not get digestive changes from eating Olean snacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36052]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's clear from extensive research is that most people do not get digestive changes from eating Olean snacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60865]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31256]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60976]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Gunn) is definitely one of the Bay Area's best. He does it all -- dribble, shoot and defend. He makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35020]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Gunn) is definitely one of the Bay Area's best. He does it all -- dribble, shoot and defend. He makes shots when we need them most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51569]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood. [Lat., Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood. [Lat., Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak, Against the wicked remnant of the week." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak, Against the wicked remnant of the week."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  Our Christian experience must agree with the Bible. We will be taught by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  Our Christian experience must agree with the Bible. We will be taught by the Bible and fed by the Bible. But we do not believe in Christ because He is in the Bible: we believe in the Bible because Christ is in us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I've stopped wearing huge trousers I can't wear boxer shorts. I wear thongs. When I first wore them I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I've stopped wearing huge trousers I can't wear boxer shorts. I wear thongs. When I first wore them I felt rude, I kept seeing my bare bum - then I liked it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't remember what you can infer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't remember what you can infer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66092]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10005]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There is no greater happiness than this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14488]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25000]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You said in [the preliminary hearing] that it looked like the gun flipped past her onto the floor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38148]]></link><description><![CDATA[You said in [the preliminary hearing] that it looked like the gun flipped past her onto the floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You needn't remind me of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50901]]></link><description><![CDATA[You needn't remind me of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433  That crowd of Jews would have followed Christ at that moment because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433  That crowd of Jews would have followed Christ at that moment because He was giving them what they wanted [bread], and they wished to use Him for their plans and dreams and purposes. That attitude to Christ still lingers in men's minds. We would like Christ's gifts without Christ's Cross; we would like to use Christ instead of allowing Him to use us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some values are ... like sugar on the doughnut, legitimate, desirable, but insufficient, apart from the doughnut itself. We need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some values are ... like sugar on the doughnut, legitimate, desirable, but insufficient, apart from the doughnut itself. We need substance as well as frosting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so far to resemble the old as to stone its prophets freely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the justice that examines all offenders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the justice that examines all offenders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6989]]></link><description><![CDATA[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/6989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882  As St. Cyprian well said, we may judge how ready He is to give us those good things which He Himself solicits us to ask of Him. Let us pray then with faith, and not lose the fruits of our prayers by a wavering uncertainty which, as St. James testifies, hinders the success of them. The same apostle advises us to pray when we are in trouble because thereby we should find consolation; yet we are so wretched that this heavenly employment is often a burden instead of a comfort to us. The lukewarmness of our prayers is the source of all our other infidelities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36879]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town develop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/735]]></link><description><![CDATA[What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   The Word of God can grow to be only a hunting-ground for texts; and we can preach, meaning intensely every word we utter, and yet in reality only lost for the moment like an actor in his part, or at least leaving it to the folk to live it out; for us, bless me, we have no time for that, but are already immersed, poor harried souls, in determining what we shall preach on next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7541</guid></item></channel></rss>