<?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[Hunger is the best sauce in the world. [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger is the best sauce in the world. [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What else is the meaning of our present chaos, of humanity in sorrow, but this: that contemporary man is tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6694]]></link><description><![CDATA[What else is the meaning of our present chaos, of humanity in sorrow, but this: that contemporary man is tried before the bar of the Eternal, and found wanting? Nor can any nation survive, or re-establish lasting peace, if it rests on those foundations on which contemporary nations have been built, our own included. What are those crumbling foundations? Conceit, self-will, denial of discipline, self-expressionism, secularism, this worldliness, greed, entrenched privilege, defiance of God's desire. On base absurdities have we built. Have we now moral courage to face our common sin, or are we content to trust in one form of armed wickedness to overcome the evils of another form of the same mad folly? Merely by smashing our enemies we shall not remake the world. By Beelzebub no devils are cast out... (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked about defending better and we came out and did it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35028]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked about defending better and we came out and did it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm waiting for the alarm clock to go off and I'm going to wake up, ... I can't believe how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm waiting for the alarm clock to go off and I'm going to wake up, ... I can't believe how well things are going. This is a dream come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on authenticity:   A mere form of religion does upon some accounts bring a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on authenticity:   A mere form of religion does upon some accounts bring a man under a heavier sentence than if he were openly profane and irreligious. He that makes a show of religion flatters God, but all the while he acts and designs against him; whereas the profane man deals plainly, and tho' he be a monstrous and unnatural rebel, yet he is a fair and open enemy. And the kisses of a false friend are more hateful than the wounds of an open enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can bring you to the door, but you have to walk through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can bring you to the door, but you have to walk through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am  To dress thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am  To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa aestimat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the Attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the Attack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20768]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23058]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can make a trade every day if I want to, but that's not going to help us. A trade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32635]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can make a trade every day if I want to, but that's not going to help us. A trade that would get us better rarely comes along. They're very difficult to find. Good trades are very difficult in our league and don't happen very often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not and should not be a target of terrorists but we are alert for any possibilities, ... We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not and should not be a target of terrorists but we are alert for any possibilities, ... We have not done anything to make people hate us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20313]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19]]></link><description><![CDATA[We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11211]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things come round to him who will but wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45725]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things come round to him who will but wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids did a great job of sticking it out down the stretch. Stanley has waited his turn all season ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids did a great job of sticking it out down the stretch. Stanley has waited his turn all season and he hit some big shots for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isn’t a story of conquest and rule. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isn’t a story of conquest and rule. Enacting it doesn’t give them power. Enacting it gives them lives that are satisfying and meaningful to them. This is what you’ll find if you go among them. They’re not seething with discontent and rebellion, not incessantly wrangling over what should be allowed and what forbidden, not forever accusing each other of not living the right way, not living in terror of each other not going crazy because their lives seem empty and pointless, not having to stupefy themselves with drugs to get through the days, not having a new religion every week to give them something to hold on to, not forever searching for something to do or something to believe in that will make lives worth living. And – I repeat – this is not because they live close to nature or have no formal government or because they’re innately noble. This is simply because they’re enacting a story that works well for people – a story that worked well for three million years and that still works well where the Takers haven’t yet managed to stamp it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have received the resignation letter from Duran, effective on August 31, and today the president designated Carlos Marin to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28969]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have received the resignation letter from Duran, effective on August 31, and today the president designated Carlos Marin to be acting United States commissioner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36468]]></link><description><![CDATA[In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging it even to himself, that in war he was likely to enjoy little profit or pleasure on the day when the long, low, black hull of the Yankee privateer, with her tapering, bending spars, her long-range guns, and her sharp-faced captain, should appear on the western horizon, and suddenly, at the sight of heavy-lumbering British merchantman, should fling out her white wings of canvas, and fly down on her prey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written about Washington after his death by another of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson: His mind was great and powerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written about Washington after his death by another of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson: His mind was great and powerful ... as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.... Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw doubt, but, when once decided, going through his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was the most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known.... He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good and a great man ... On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect ... it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great....]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. [Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. [Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is mighty and will prevail. [Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is mighty and will prevail. [Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It costs employers major money if employees leave their campus for extended periods of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It costs employers major money if employees leave their campus for extended periods of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23656]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate;  For greatest scandal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate;  For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58476]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud,  It is but for a time; I press God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20601]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud,  It is but for a time; I press God's lamp   Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late    Will pierce the gloom; I shall emerge one day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50159]]></link><description><![CDATA[He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   All these several artifices, whatever they may be, to unhallow the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   All these several artifices, whatever they may be, to unhallow the Sunday, and to change its character (it might be almost said, to mitigate its horrors,) prove but too plainly, however we may be glad to take refuge in religion, when driven to it by the loss of every other comfort, and to retain, as it were, a reversionary interest in an asylum, which may receive us when we are forced from the transitory enjoyments of our present state; that in itself wears to us a gloomy and forbidding aspect, and not a face of consolation and joy; that the worship of God is with us a constrained, not a willing, service, which we are glad therefore to abridge, though we dare not omit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars! - Caliban in the Coal Mines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two lousy choices is no better than seven lousy choices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two lousy choices is no better than seven lousy choices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity:  To every mother's heart forlorn,   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity:  To every mother's heart forlorn,   In every house the Christ is born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She couldn't have played without it. Her ankle looked like a football. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28600]]></link><description><![CDATA[She couldn't have played without it. Her ankle looked like a football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53339]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I know I learned after I was thirty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14726]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I know I learned after I was thirty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulties arise when we ask how much this polar complementarity [of the sexes] should be reflected in the structure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulties arise when we ask how much this polar complementarity [of the sexes] should be reflected in the structure of social life, both domestic and public. The New Testament [again, and notoriously, in the person of St Paul] assumes that there will be places other than the bedroom in which men and women assume consciously differentiated roles. They will do so in the affairs of the home, in which the wife is to "submit" to her husband (Eph. 5:22ff) as head. They will do so even outside the context of family life, since man is "head" of woman in some sense; in quite another context, when the Church is at worship (I Cor. 11:2ff). In order that St Paul should not be misjudged, we must note--(a) that this relational ordering of male and female presupposes a fundamental generic equality (I Cor. 11:1 ff); and (b) that the "submission" of the wife is a special case of a "submission" of all Christians to one another, and complements a husband's love that is to be expressed in self-sacrifice (Eph. 5:2lff, 25ff). The apostle is not an apologist for male tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6391</guid></item></channel></rss>