<?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[He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest superiority.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest superiority.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? It seems purposeless. Our question of the why of evil assumes the view that the world has a purpose, and what we want to know is how suffering fits into and advances this purpose. The modern view is that suffering has no purpose because nothing that happens has any purpose: the world is run by causes, not by purposes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26308]]></link><description><![CDATA[If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you woke up breathing, congratulations!  You have another chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65717]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you woke up breathing, congratulations!  You have another chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before, they used to tell you who to vote for, but not this time, ... The management of the elections ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before, they used to tell you who to vote for, but not this time, ... The management of the elections is better today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That combination was something we wanted to hit last week (against West Craven). We tried two or three times but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40588]]></link><description><![CDATA[That combination was something we wanted to hit last week (against West Craven). We tried two or three times but could never make it work. But (North Lenoir) stayed in Cover 2 and just gave it to us. We decided before the game we were going to try it against them; we did it three times and hit it twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward. - "Mr. Dooley's Opinions", 1900.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an interest in being involved the community. There are many things that are beneficial in civilian life. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36201]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an interest in being involved the community. There are many things that are beneficial in civilian life. It was the opportunity to work with many different people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatively speaking, my understanding of the law is that if Google went to scan in a book without the author's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatively speaking, my understanding of the law is that if Google went to scan in a book without the author's permission, then that would be a violation of copyright law. I think it would be great to be able to search text electronically, but you have to get the copyright permission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really like the original Apes costumes. The colors were great, and the use of heavy materials was something that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32089]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really like the original Apes costumes. The colors were great, and the use of heavy materials was something that influenced me for this film.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, reallybelieve, your mind will find the ways to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, reallybelieve, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution pavesthe way to solution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I could be an impact player this season, ... When I'm out on the field, I'm not scared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I could be an impact player this season, ... When I'm out on the field, I'm not scared of anyone. I'm just going to move the ball -- boom-boom , one-touch, two-touch -- and when the right time comes and I've got somebody one-on-one, I'll take him. But I'm not always going to have the greatest game of my life. There's going to be games when I absolutely suck. That happens to everybody. So it'll be up to me to regroup and try to find a way to bounce back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women are bitches except my mother - not trusting her but respecting her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61939]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women are bitches except my mother - not trusting her but respecting her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we once accept the doctrine of the Incarnation, we must surely be very cautious in suggesting that any circumstance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8531]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we once accept the doctrine of the Incarnation, we must surely be very cautious in suggesting that any circumstance in the culture of first-century Palestine was a hampering or distorting influence upon His teaching. Do we suppose that the scene of God's earthly life was selected at random? -- that some other scene would have served better?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was gratuitously insulting 50 million Americans who call themselves Republicans, some of whom we hope will vote Democrat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33258]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was gratuitously insulting 50 million Americans who call themselves Republicans, some of whom we hope will vote Democrat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50281]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There rose no day, there roll'd no hour Of pleasure unembitter'd;  And not a trapping deck'd my power,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48768]]></link><description><![CDATA[There rose no day, there roll'd no hour Of pleasure unembitter'd;  And not a trapping deck'd my power,   That gall'd not while it glitter'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economics is first and foremost about the thoughts leading up to choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economics is first and foremost about the thoughts leading up to choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4315]]></link><description><![CDATA[For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876   The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.  [Ger., Denn was man schwarz ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47765]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.  [Ger., Denn was man schwarz auf weiss besitzt,   Kann man getrost nach Hause tragen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65996]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is the teacher of fools. [Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is the teacher of fools. [Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. [Lat., Fatetur facinus is qui judicum fugit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18481]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. [Lat., Fatetur facinus is qui judicum fugit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FORTY DAYS is a social, spiritual and learning experiment in which people experience the intensity of monastic life. The purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32900]]></link><description><![CDATA[FORTY DAYS is a social, spiritual and learning experiment in which people experience the intensity of monastic life. The purpose is not religious conversion per se, but it is to expose people to the reality of unplugging from modern life completely and creating the opportunity to explore their beliefs in a contemplative environment. The tone of the series will be thoughtful and respectful to the brothers and sisters who have made their monastery home to our production team and the participants in the series.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60442]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604  We can have no power from Christ unless we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604  We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good horses make short miles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good horses make short miles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who work for plant rights don't parse parsleynor bomb poppiesnor purchase antipeople papers.They plant papayas,and peppers.Their pulpit is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who work for plant rights don't parse parsleynor bomb poppiesnor purchase antipeople papers.They plant papayas,and peppers.Their pulpit is the popular*not the papal but poplars.* not in the sense of ephemeral famebut what the people want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How God ever brings like to like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9138]]></link><description><![CDATA[How God ever brings like to like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61151]]></link><description><![CDATA['What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned,' he said defiantly, 'if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - Love's Cure, 1647. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25488]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - Love's Cure, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25488</guid></item></channel></rss>