<?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[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no other book that I know of that provides such a comprehensive exposition of gang dynamics and activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38577]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no other book that I know of that provides such a comprehensive exposition of gang dynamics and activities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I probably use it seven days a week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37161]]></link><description><![CDATA[I probably use it seven days a week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had gotten complaints from subcontractors and vendors who were not getting paid in a timely manner. As the complaints ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38059]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had gotten complaints from subcontractors and vendors who were not getting paid in a timely manner. As the complaints became more frequent, it was a sign the contractor was having some serious problems and would be unable to fulfill their obligations. That is when it reached the point to protect the commission's interest and take the steps necessary to get the project finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4862]]></link><description><![CDATA[In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;  Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below the sublime makes the ridiculous and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Karma ran over your dogma. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23681]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Karma ran over your dogma.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were notified by relatives who had not been able to contact the man, despite several tries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34900]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were notified by relatives who had not been able to contact the man, despite several tries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25388]]></link><description><![CDATA[A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47164]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave not a rack behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave not a rack behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a good spot because the game wasn't on the line at that point. It wasn't like if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35539]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a good spot because the game wasn't on the line at that point. It wasn't like if he made an out we would lose. Even if he didn't get the hit, we'd still have the lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or broidered zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer,  Yet run himself life's mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer,  Yet run himself life's mad career   Wild as the wave?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see, the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still  That others touch, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see, the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still  That others touch, and often touching will   Wear gold; and no man that hath a name,    By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To perpetuate the clerical role of answer man, the layman when inside the church building must act as if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6356]]></link><description><![CDATA[To perpetuate the clerical role of answer man, the layman when inside the church building must act as if he has only half a brain, while outside, in the world, he is expected to be an ambassador for Christ, a lay transmitter of faith. Outside, he is to be informed and vocal; inside, he must appear ignorant and mute as a sheep. Christians have within them many questions -- questions that are at once elementary and profound, questions that would ripple the water were they raised. However, because a Christian is supposed to have "answers", life's important questions are not discussed outside the church building; and, because the pastor is the educated, spiritual authority, they are not discussed inside either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a question of us losing anymore. Now, we're going into the game knowing that we can win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36100]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a question of us losing anymore. Now, we're going into the game knowing that we can win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36100</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[Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ready to be surprised ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ready to be surprised]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization of the kind witnessed today. But that impulse has weakened, and therelationship between the people and the corporation has reversed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18160]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. [Lat., Conveniens homini est hominem servare voluptas.  Et melius nulla quaeritur arte favor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48644]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democracy should be exposed for what it truly is,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14779]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As is the mother, so is her daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As is the mother, so is her daughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52094]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas good advice, and meant, "My son, be good." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/778]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas good advice, and meant, "My son, be good."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough... It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again," to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again," to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike: it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can fill a whole hand up with Super Bowl rings, and those haven't been seen around here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38171]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can fill a whole hand up with Super Bowl rings, and those haven't been seen around here,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20874]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   Some men, not content with [Christ] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   Some men, not content with [Christ] alone, are borne hither and thither from one hope to another; even if they concern themselves chiefly with him, they nevertheless stray from the right way in turning some part of their thinking in another direction. Yet such distrust cannot creep in where men have once for all truly known the abundance of his blessings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47266]]></link><description><![CDATA[These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so easy, to think about love, to talk about love, to wish for love. But it's not always easy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so easy, to think about love, to talk about love, to wish for love. But it's not always easy, to recognize love. Even when we hold it....in our hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61185]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It recognized that a number of people had made housing choices on the assumption that they had raised their children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It recognized that a number of people had made housing choices on the assumption that they had raised their children and had made a conscious decision to chose a lifestyle without (other people's) children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977   The principal part of faith is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977   The principal part of faith is patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26290]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  The reason why we can hope to find God is that He is here, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  The reason why we can hope to find God is that He is here, engaged all the time in finding us. Every pulse of love is a tendril that draws us in His direction. Every verification of truth links the finite mind up into a Foundational Mind that undergirds us. Every deed of good will points toward a consummate Goodness which fulfills all our tiny adventures in faith. We can find Him because in Him we live and move and have our being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15610]]></link><description><![CDATA[A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15610</guid></item></channel></rss>