<?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[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6874]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand, only two accusations of personal depravity seem to have been brought against Jesus of Nazareth. First, that He was a Sabbath-breaker. Secondly, that He was "a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners" -- or (to draw aside the veil of Elizabethan English that makes it sound so much more respectable) that He ate too heartily, drank too freely, and kept very disreputable company, including grafters of the lowest type and ladies who were no better than they should be. For nineteen and a half centuries, the Christian Churches have laboured, not without success, to remove this unfortunate impression made by their Lord and Master. They have hustled the Magdalens from the Communion-table, founded Total Abstinence Societies in the name of Him who made the water wine, and added improvements of their own, such as various bans and anathemas upon dancing and theatre-going. They have transferred the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, and, feeling that the original commandment "Thou shalt not work" was rather half-hearted, have added to it the new commandment, "Thou shalt not play.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1892]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I'll take away the most from today is that you learn from your mistakes. Mistakes and hard lessons make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34666]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I'll take away the most from today is that you learn from your mistakes. Mistakes and hard lessons make you appreciate life more. That's how I think, and I was glad to hear that. I don't regret anything I've done because of that way of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7594]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sandbanks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From many to make one. [Lat., Ex pluribus unum facere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2393]]></link><description><![CDATA[From many to make one. [Lat., Ex pluribus unum facere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4155]]></link><description><![CDATA[If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57762]]></link><description><![CDATA[I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The cartoon controversy] has struck a chord of public anger. The spark was provided by the cartoons, but it's already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29787]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The cartoon controversy] has struck a chord of public anger. The spark was provided by the cartoons, but it's already political, and the target now is the government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59344]]></link><description><![CDATA[This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This means a lot. We've been in (District 12-AAA) with Franklin, Centennial and Brentwood for the last five years. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28820]]></link><description><![CDATA[This means a lot. We've been in (District 12-AAA) with Franklin, Centennial and Brentwood for the last five years. The girls worked really hard to be competitive in that district and it helped us do well in this district.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. [Fr., On ne peut repondre de son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. [Fr., On ne peut repondre de son courage quand on n'a jamais ete dans le peril.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice. If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you score one more goal than the other team, you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57775]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you score one more goal than the other team, you win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The administration will aggressively fight the war on terror in an effort to protect the American people while at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The administration will aggressively fight the war on terror in an effort to protect the American people while at the same time upholding the civil liberties of the American people. The president is doing both of these things and will continue to do both of these things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The peace makers shall be called the children of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26879]]></link><description><![CDATA[The peace makers shall be called the children of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664    Do you think that the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says that His yoke is easy, His burden is light. People sometimes refuse to do God's work just because it is easy. This is sometimes because they cannot believe that easy work is His work; but there may be a very bad pride in it.   Some, again, accept it with half a heart and do it with half a hand. But however easy any work may be, it can not be well done without taking thought about it. And such people, instead of taking thought about their work, generally take thought about the morrow -- in which no work can be done, any more than in yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64238]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing a huge increase in all import bills. Some of them are beginning to feel pressure on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36694]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing a huge increase in all import bills. Some of them are beginning to feel pressure on the external balance of payments. Fiscal strains in India, Indonesia, Bangladesh are particularly huge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22222]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At age 14, he became a ward of the local Childrens Aid group.] My aunt died when I was away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31863]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At age 14, he became a ward of the local Childrens Aid group.] My aunt died when I was away at a camp, ... so I didn't have the chance to be with her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By expanding DFS into Canada, we are able to better meet our existing clients' needs while positioning ourselves strategically for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35060]]></link><description><![CDATA[By expanding DFS into Canada, we are able to better meet our existing clients' needs while positioning ourselves strategically for future growth opportunities. The Canadian marketplace is a natural expansion of our industry-leading field services business and will allow us to be a single source of inspections and audits for our U.S. and Canadian clients.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which can secure them from want at home and against aggression from abroad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know,  To make men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/608]]></link><description><![CDATA[To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know,  To make men happy, and to keep them so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on next to nothing, have taken due precaution against ever perishing from hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent-- that is to triumph over old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19784]]></link><description><![CDATA[To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent-- that is to triumph over old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mississippi officials have taken some important first steps toward reform, ... Despite some initial progress, we have been unable to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mississippi officials have taken some important first steps toward reform, ... Despite some initial progress, we have been unable to obtain agreement on an in-court settlement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So runs the round of life from hour to hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8727]]></link><description><![CDATA[So runs the round of life from hour to hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, to begin with, you can pray. Pray!, you say scornfully, pray! I knew it would all fizzle out, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, to begin with, you can pray. Pray!, you say scornfully, pray! I knew it would all fizzle out, and come to nothing. I could pray! Yes, you could pray, and, whatever you may think about it -- using it as a poor makeshift of a thing much lower than a second-best, not really a best at all, on which men fall back only when they can do nothing effectively, and are too fidgety to be able to do nothing at all -- Christ holds that prayer is a tremendous power which achieves what, without it, was a sheer impossibility. And this amazing thing you can set into operation. And the fact that you are not so using it, and simply don't believe in it and its efficiency and efficacy as our fathers did, and that so many nowadays agree with you, is certainly a major reason why the churches are so cold, and the promises seem so tardy of fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise people always think wisely and never otherwise !. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise people always think wisely and never otherwise !.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I can do is what I think is right. I've always tried to build relationships with people on campus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38134]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I can do is what I think is right. I've always tried to build relationships with people on campus, and I think they know what kind of person I am. ... I think I feel as secure as I can be, given the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40804]]></link><description><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification of a better career option and higher salary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor."--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor."--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47714]]></link><description><![CDATA[True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date;  Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date;  Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate,   Full on thy bloom,    Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight     Shall be thy doom!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great end of life is not knowledge but action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great end of life is not knowledge but action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22695</guid></item></channel></rss>