<?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[OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44812]]></link><description><![CDATA[OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.'' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58189]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.'']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a bundle of untruths ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40869]]></link><description><![CDATA[a bundle of untruths]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14601]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. [The more the merrier.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27410]]></link><description><![CDATA[And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. [The more the merrier.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50270]]></link><description><![CDATA[In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Skype team's thinking is they don't need help. They've got the best product and the market will come to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Skype team's thinking is they don't need help. They've got the best product and the market will come to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the sword; the one uses it as a means of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the sword; the one uses it as a means of attack, the other as a means of defence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and he conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea thatpossesses the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22671]]></link><description><![CDATA[A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea thatpossesses the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27311]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63657]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . what women want is what men want. They want respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27025]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . what women want is what men want. They want respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23810]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the weakest is thrust to the wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the weakest is thrust to the wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sonny was a no-frills kind of guy. He shot straight from the shoulder. You knew exactly where you stood with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sonny was a no-frills kind of guy. He shot straight from the shoulder. You knew exactly where you stood with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized the parts, the more elaborate co-ordination is needed to create a well-balanced whole. The ultimate criterion of the value of a functional whole is the degree of its internal harmony or integratedness, whether the "functional whole" is a biological species or a civilization or an individual. A whole is defined by the pattern of relations between its parts, not by the sum of its parts; and a civilization is not defined by the sum of its science, technology, art and social organization, but by the total pattern which they form, and the degree of harmonious integration in that pattern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  It is the custom of unbelievers to speak as if the air of Palestine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  It is the custom of unbelievers to speak as if the air of Palestine were then surcharged with belief in the supernatural, miracles were everywhere. Thus they would explain away the significance of the popular belief that our Lord wrought signs and wonders. But in so doing they set themselves a worse problem than they evade. If miracles were so very common, it would be as easy to believe that Jesus wrought them as that He worked at His father's bench, but also it would be as inconclusive.  And how then are we to explain the astonishment which all the evangelists so constantly record? On any conceivable theory, these writers shared the beliefs of that age, and so did the readers who accepted their assurance that all were amazed, and that His report "went out straightway everywhere into all the region of Galilee." These are emphatic words, and both the author and his readers must have considered a miracle to be more surprising than modern critics believe they did. Yet we do not read of any one was converted by this miracle. All were amazed, but wonder is not self-surrender. They were content to let their excitement die out -- as every violent emotion must -- without any change of life, any permanent devotion to the new Teacher and His doctrine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the wind is against you then start sailing against it because the wind may never change in your favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45113]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the wind is against you then start sailing against it because the wind may never change in your favor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24656]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5079]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. - The Saving Sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22131]]></link><description><![CDATA['We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. - The Saving Sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As much as we all love the show, we do have to run a business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35283]]></link><description><![CDATA[As much as we all love the show, we do have to run a business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to remember that this is what you play for all your life, and being on the big show, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29587]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to remember that this is what you play for all your life, and being on the big show, you've got to keep trying, ... This is my first time playing the course and even if I don't make the cut, I want to play as good as I can for next year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accusations of genocide are a very sensitive issue and we are attempting to deal with it as such. The accusations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accusations of genocide are a very sensitive issue and we are attempting to deal with it as such. The accusations are made against the Ottoman regime and are no reflection on the modern Turkish state or Turkish people. I have met to discuss the issue with a range of representatives from the Turkish community and agreed to host a seminar for them to present their view on this period of history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61556]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In God, we live every commonplace as well as the most exalted moment of our being. To trust in Him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8092]]></link><description><![CDATA[In God, we live every commonplace as well as the most exalted moment of our being. To trust in Him when no need is pressing, when things seem going right of themselves, may be harder than when things seem going wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A report to the Security Council initiates a chain of events... that breed tension and add volatility to an already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A report to the Security Council initiates a chain of events... that breed tension and add volatility to an already vulnerable political situation in the region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas the night before Christman, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring,--not even a mouse:  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8642]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas the night before Christman, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring,--not even a mouse:  The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,   In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;  And this they knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18460]]></link><description><![CDATA[However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;  And this they knew and felt, at least the one,   The leader of the hand he had undone,--    Who, born for better things, had madly set     His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be human means to feel inferior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14606]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be human means to feel inferior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55231]]></link><description><![CDATA[All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this. -Elbert Hubbard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9738]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust"; Because, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust"; Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like I'd always get close [to gaining 100 yards in a game] but fall short. It felt good to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39138]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like I'd always get close [to gaining 100 yards in a game] but fall short. It felt good to get that one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civium in moribus rei publicae salus [The welfare of the state (depends upon) the morals of its citizens] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civium in moribus rei publicae salus [The welfare of the state (depends upon) the morals of its citizens]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future.  And the only important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future.  And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I first noticed the trees, swaying in the wind, and then I saw, or maybe I heard, one being twisted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I first noticed the trees, swaying in the wind, and then I saw, or maybe I heard, one being twisted from its roots. That's when I knew something bad was coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64618]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64618</guid></item></channel></rss>