<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/7606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just looked a lot worse than it was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just looked a lot worse than it was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far below and around lay the city like a ragged purple dream. The irregular houses were like the broken exteriors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far below and around lay the city like a ragged purple dream. The irregular houses were like the broken exteriors of cliffs lining deep gulches and winding streams. Some were mountainous; some lay in long, monotonous rows like, the basalt precipices hanging over desert canons. Such was the background of the wonderful, cruel, enchanting, bewildering, fatal, great city. But into this background were cut myriads of brilliant parallelograms and circles and squares through which glowed many colored lights. And out of the violet and purple depths ascended like the city's soul, sound and odors and thrills that make up the civic body. There arose the breath of gaiety unrestrained, of love, of hate, of all the passions that man can know. There below him lay all things, good or bad, that can be brought from the four corners of the earth to instruct, please, thrill, enrich, elevate, cast down, nurture or kill. Thus the flavor of it came up to him and went into his blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3517]]></link><description><![CDATA[And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am determined to see the job through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am determined to see the job through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let those love now, who never loved before, Let those who always loved, now love the more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let those love now, who never loved before, Let those who always loved, now love the more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21636]]></link><description><![CDATA[champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have no use for helicopters!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta committi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This activity has an MHSA-approved scoring system very similar to track and field. Just getting a seat on a varsity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36000]]></link><description><![CDATA[This activity has an MHSA-approved scoring system very similar to track and field. Just getting a seat on a varsity trip is a big accomplishment in our program. To be selected on the state team is a big deal. These kids are the best and brightest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The system has always worked out good in the past. Parents of the younger students appreciate the calls that their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The system has always worked out good in the past. Parents of the younger students appreciate the calls that their child is not there, and it brings attention to parents of older students that their child was absent without them knowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2686]]></link><description><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They switched everything and denied passes and did a good job of taking away what we wanted to do. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37103]]></link><description><![CDATA[They switched everything and denied passes and did a good job of taking away what we wanted to do. We just played a lot harder when we were playing well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32666]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54476]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a double-standard. And quite often if you're from Africa, if you're from a developing country, you'll be executed. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33677]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a double-standard. And quite often if you're from Africa, if you're from a developing country, you'll be executed. There aren't that many people protesting or making a big fuss. But our State Department and the media -- if you're a Westerner -- will make a big fuss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25251]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of my priorities is to go to the beach. It's been five years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36675]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my priorities is to go to the beach. It's been five years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16469]]></link><description><![CDATA[But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most smiles are started by another smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most smiles are started by another smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11670]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62781]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These legislators did the right thing and recognized the importance of letting Wisconsin citizens have their say in November. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39293]]></link><description><![CDATA[These legislators did the right thing and recognized the importance of letting Wisconsin citizens have their say in November.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1622]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2967]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subsidies could fuel inflation through increased spending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subsidies could fuel inflation through increased spending.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath no head, needes no heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath no head, needes no heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47833]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is like a train that is nearly always late ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is like a train that is nearly always late]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indifference is the invisible giant of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sausalito is the gateway to Marin, with people arriving by car, by ferry and they hang out in parks where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sausalito is the gateway to Marin, with people arriving by car, by ferry and they hang out in parks where trash cans are ugly, weather-beaten with peeling paint. If we make them look like works of art, people will treat them as such. People would be encouraged to observe them as art that is also utilitarian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we came out pretty intense with our full-court defense. We were able to cause some turnovers and get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we came out pretty intense with our full-court defense. We were able to cause some turnovers and get some transitions baskets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of the Last Supper, scene of the Resurrection appearances when the doors were shut, scene now of their waiting for the Spirit. Whose is it? The clue lies in Acts 12, where St. Peter, strangely freed from Herod's prison, knows at whose house they will be gathered for prayer. He knocks, startles the gate-girl Rhoda. It was "the house of Mary the mother of John whose surname was Mark" -- the young man who was to write the earliest of the gospels. The first meeting place of any Christian congregation was the home of a woman in Jerusalem. Something of the sort happens everywhere. The church in Caesarea centres upon Philip the Evangelist. "Now this man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy." ... Joppa church depends on Tabitha, "a woman full of good works and almsdeeds which she did". Follow St. Paul about the Mediterranean. He crosses to Europe because he dreams of a man from Macedonia who cries, "Come over and help us". But when he lands at Philippi it is not a man, but a woman. "Lydia was baptized and her household" -- his first convert in Europe, a woman. Everywhere women are the most notable of the converts, often the only ones who believe. In Thessalonica there are "of the chief women not a few"; Beroea, "Greek women of honourable estate"; Athens, only two names, one of them, Damaris, a woman. At Corinth Priscilla and Aquila come into the story, the pair always mentioned together, and four times out of the six with the wife's name first, a thing undreamed of in the first century. Why? Because she counted for more in church affairs -- hostess of the church in her houses in Corinth, Ephesus and Rome, chief instructress of Apollos the missionary, intimate of the greatest missionary of all, St. Paul. Six times in the Epistles greetings are sent to a house-church, and in five cases the church is linked with a woman's name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president's made his position clear. There is a principle involved here from the president's standpoint when it comes to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17011]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president's made his position clear. There is a principle involved here from the president's standpoint when it comes to issues of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been just enough activity on the big, new shiny aircraft front ... to keep both manufacturers feeling and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31733]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been just enough activity on the big, new shiny aircraft front ... to keep both manufacturers feeling and talking very buoyantly about the future,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is a machine where you have been placed, and like a machine the outcome can be known. Every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is a machine where you have been placed, and like a machine the outcome can be known. Every battle has already been won or lost. All that is left is for you to choose your side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60179</guid></item></channel></rss>