<?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[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  There is a curious betrayal of the popular estimate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  There is a curious betrayal of the popular estimate of this world and the world to come, in the honour paid to those who cast away life in battle, or sap it slowly in the pursuit of wealth or honours, and the contempt expressed for those who compromise life on behalf of souls, for which Christ died. Whenever, by exertion in any unselfish cause, health is broken or fortune impaired, or influential friends estranged, the follower of Christ is called an enthusiast, a fanatic, or even more plainly a man of unsound mind. He may be comforted by remembering that Jesus was said to be beside Himself when teaching and healing left Him not leisure even to eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep a good table and attend to the ladies. [Fr., Tenez bonne table et soignez les femmes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep a good table and attend to the ladies. [Fr., Tenez bonne table et soignez les femmes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must get a thing before he can forget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16472]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must get a thing before he can forget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is well paid that is well satisfied, And I delivering you am satisfied,  And therein do account myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54732]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is well paid that is well satisfied, And I delivering you am satisfied,  And therein do account myself well paid;   My mind was never yet more mercenary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O well for him whose will is strong, He suffers, but he will not suffer long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51708]]></link><description><![CDATA[O well for him whose will is strong, He suffers, but he will not suffer long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reject hatred without hating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reject hatred without hating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When fire is applied to a stone it cracks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15993]]></link><description><![CDATA[When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14830]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15424]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our view, these proceedings could drag on for many quarters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32038]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our view, these proceedings could drag on for many quarters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sidney Crosby is going to play where Sidney Crosby and his agent decide he's going to play. Any player who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sidney Crosby is going to play where Sidney Crosby and his agent decide he's going to play. Any player who has reached the age of 18 by Sept. 15 is eligible to play in our league if he is appropriately under contract.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get home at 9 p.m. and you try to call your broker, is he going to be there? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42135]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get home at 9 p.m. and you try to call your broker, is he going to be there? I don't think so. But your computer will be. It doesn't have a mortgage and it doesn't need to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has poster'ty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose,  Should trust our necks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47853]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has poster'ty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose,  Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't know there was anything being built until today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39308]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't know there was anything being built until today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign  A melancholy damp of cold and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50652]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign  A melancholy damp of cold and dry   To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume    The balm of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This coherence of the Bible itself, and of the Bible and the Church, is a coherence and a unity set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7387]]></link><description><![CDATA[This coherence of the Bible itself, and of the Bible and the Church, is a coherence and a unity set in opposition to the world existing beyond its borders and outside its influence, so that there comes into being a tension between the world as it actually is and the Church, in so far as the Church rests upon the Biblical revelation of God. But this tension is not something that concerns the Church and the world as though they are things which exist outside us and apart from us, which we can consider and observe and discuss and have theories about. The tension between the Church and the world exists within us and is the very fiber of our being, and neither the one nor the other is superficial or trivial. For we are, all of us, of the earth, earthy; and we are also baptized members of Christ and His Church. It is precisely because we belong to two worlds that our lives consist in insecurity -- that we are, in fact, a drama, the final act of which, the judgement of reward or punishment, heaven or hell, is hidden from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  I love poverty because He loved it. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  I love poverty because He loved it. I love riches because they afford me the means of helping the very poor. I keep faith with everybody; I do not render evil to those who wrong me, but I wish them a situation like mine, in which I receive neither good nor evil from men. I try to be just, true, sincere, and faithful to all men; I have a tender heart for those to whom God has more closely united me; and whether I am alone, or seen by people, I do all my actions in the sight of God, who must judge them, and to whom I have consecrated them all. These are my sentiments; and every day of my life, I bless my Redeemer, who has implanted them in me, and who, out of a man full of weakness, of miseries, of lust, of pride, and of ambition, has made a man free from all these evils by the power of His grace, to which all the glory of it is due, as of myself I have only misery and error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4695]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every town needs a place to gather. We hope that this is just the beginning in terms of what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every town needs a place to gather. We hope that this is just the beginning in terms of what the park has to offer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt:  Good husbandry spieth   Where profit get.   - Thomas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt:  Good husbandry spieth   Where profit get.   - Thomas Tusser,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of optimism. We proceeded to live these propositions, though we would not have stated them as blandly as I set them forth here:   Man is inherently good.  Individual man can carve out his own salvation with the help of education and society through progressively better government.  Reality and values worth searching for lie in the material world that science is steadily teaching us to analyze, catalogue, and measure. While we do not deny the existence of inner values, we relegate them to second place.  The purpose of life is happiness, [which] we define in terms of enjoyable activity, friends, and the accumulation of material objects.  The pain and evil of life -- such as ignorance, poverty, selfishness, hatred, greed, lust for power -- are caused by factors in the external world; therefore, the cure lies in the reforming of human institutions and the bettering of environmental conditions.  As science and technology remove poverty and lift from us the burden of physical existence, we shall automatically become finer persons, seeing for ourselves the value of living the Golden Rule.  In time, the rest of the world will appreciate the demonstration that the American way of life is best. They will then seek for themselves the good life of freedom and prosperity. This will be the greatest impetus toward an end of global conflict.  The way to get along with people is to beware of religious dictums and dogma. The ideal is to be a nice person and to live by the Creed of Tolerance. Thus we offend few people. We live and let live. This is the American Way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief brims itself and flows away in tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let the University get in the way of your education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let the University get in the way of your education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bosom upon my counsel; You'll find it wholesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bosom upon my counsel; You'll find it wholesome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up until now, we've done little but complain. Until now, we've stood by, watching native habitat disappear, and with it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up until now, we've done little but complain. Until now, we've stood by, watching native habitat disappear, and with it wildlife of all types. Instead of doing something, we've come to accept our present situation as inevitable and tolerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  The Hebrew word, nabi, translated "prophet" in English Bibles, has the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  The Hebrew word, nabi, translated "prophet" in English Bibles, has the connotation of "message bearer". The prophets were men called by God to serve as His messengers to a stubborn and unheeding people. They were always careful to point out that they were not voicing their own wisdom. Their warnings, entreaties, and promises were always prefaced by the awesome proclamation: "Thus says the Lord..." When the prophets did engage in prognostication, they usually were concerned with events which were fairly close at hand, such as the Assyrian conquest of Israel and the Babylonian conquest of Judah (both of which they foretold with deadly accuracy). But occasionally a prophet's vision ranged farther into the future, to the day when God would enter into a new covenant with his rebellious children. The hope of reconciliation was often linked with the coming of a very particular person, a Messiah or Savior.  What made the prophets so sure that they had a right--nay, a duty, to speak in the name of God? It is clear from their writings that they were not megalomaniacs who confused their own thoughts with the voice of God. On the contrary, they were humble men, awe-stricken by the responsibilities thrust upon them... The prophets minced no words in their indictments of the sins of Israel and Judah, and they trod especially hard on the toes of the rich, the powerful, and the pious. The Establishment responded then as some church members are wont to respond now when a preacher speaks out on controversial public issues: "One should not preach of such things!" (Micah 2:6).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He shall find the rugged thistle bursting Into glossy purples, that outredden  All voluptuous garden roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51697]]></link><description><![CDATA[He shall find the rugged thistle bursting Into glossy purples, that outredden  All voluptuous garden roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10233]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first years of man must make provision for the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first years of man must make provision for the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MUFFLED CADENCEThe sound of shot.The roar of gun.Thy will be doneblares the drum.The sudden shock.The news farflung.Thy will be donebeats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11281]]></link><description><![CDATA[MUFFLED CADENCEThe sound of shot.The roar of gun.Thy will be doneblares the drum.The sudden shock.The news farflung.Thy will be donebeats the drum.The hour of grief.The darkened sun.Thy will be donerolls the drum.The sound of shot.The grave begun.Thy will be donemourns the drum.**by N Marshall Bertsch(N Marshall Bertsch is a Republican who was profoundlygriefstricken by the assassination of John F Kennedy).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43809]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14458]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14458</guid></item></channel></rss>