<?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[There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You\'re serving people and submitting to God as best you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66579]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You\'re serving people and submitting to God as best you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a stone there, That whoever kisses,  Oh! he never misses   To grow eloquent.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23052]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a stone there, That whoever kisses,  Oh! he never misses   To grow eloquent.    'Tis he may clamber     To a lady's chamber      Or become a member       Of Parliament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6002]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released. -Robert Penn Warren.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today  In your land and my land   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today  In your land and my land   And half a world away!    Rose-red and blood-red     The stripes forever gleam;      Snow-white and soul-white--       The good forefathers' dream;        Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright--         The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47491]]></link><description><![CDATA[War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you know best; if you're a runner, run, if you're a bell, ring ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you know best; if you're a runner, run, if you're a bell, ring]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My eyes make pictures, when they are shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12869]]></link><description><![CDATA[My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  Tell God all that is in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell Him your troubles, that He may comfort you; tell Him your joys, that He may sober them; tell Him your longings, that He may purify them; tell Him your dislikes, that He may help you conquer them; talk to Him of your temptations, that He may shield you from them: show Him the wounds of your heart, that He may heal them; lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your instability. Tell Him how self-love makes you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride disguises you to yourself and others.  If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subjects of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back; neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of the heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot.  Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64519]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot.  Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high profile project.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38412]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8728]]></link><description><![CDATA[And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one even knew it was happening. We're going to work with the contractor to ensure that it's consistent with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33037]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one even knew it was happening. We're going to work with the contractor to ensure that it's consistent with the OMB policy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long arm of coincidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long arm of coincidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19677]]></link><description><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big-time win for College Park. My kids played hard. They played inspired. I'm very proud of them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40169]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big-time win for College Park. My kids played hard. They played inspired. I'm very proud of them. They fought until the end and we pulled it off. Monique hit two big free throws in the fourth quarter and Allie iced it with two free throws. Rachel was everywhere defensively. We made more history at College Park. This group is making history every couple of weeks. It's an exciting group of kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian knowledge, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian knowledge, a question whether any nation uninstructed in religion should receive instruction; or whether that, instruction should be imparted to them by a translation of the holy-books into their own language. If obedience to the will of GOD be necessary to happiness, and knowledge of his will be necessary to obedience, I know not how he that withholds this knowledge, or delays it, can be said to love his neighbour as himself. He, that voluntarily continues ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces; as to him that should extinguish the tapers of a light-house, might justly be imputed the calamities of shipwrecks. (Continued tomorrow)   ... a letter from Samuel Johnson to William Drummond of Edinburgh, 1766  July 13, 2002   Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity; and as no man is good but as he wishes the good of others, so no man can be good in the highest degree, who wishes not to others the largest measures of the greatest good. To omit for a year, or for a day, the most efficacious method of advancing Christianity [i.e., the Bible], in compliance with any purposes that terminate this side of the grave, is a crime [the like] of which I know not that the world has yet had an example.   ... a letter from Samuel Johnson to William Drummond of Edinburgh, 1766  July 14, 2002 Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The "good" man, the man whose god is righteousness, has as his life's ambition the keeping of rules and commandments and the keeping of himself uncontaminated by the world. This sounds admirable; but, as the truth of Christ showed, the whole of such living, the whole drive and ambition, the whole edifice, is self-centered. That entire process of effort must be abandoned if a man is to give himself in love to God and his fellows. He must lose his life if he is ever going to find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65924]]></link><description><![CDATA[If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner. ("To know all is to forgive all.") ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner. ("To know all is to forgive all.") No commonplace is more untrue. Behavior, whether conditioned by an individual neurosis or by society, can be understood, that is to say, one knows exactly why such and such an individual behaves as he does. But a personal action or deed is always mysterious. When we really act, precisely because it is a matter of free choice, we can never say exactly why we do this rather than that. But it is only deeds that we are required to forgive. If someone does me an injury, the question of forgiveness only arises if I am convinced (a) that the injury he did me was a free act on his part and therefore no less mysterious to him than to me, and (b) that it was me personally whom he meant to injure. Christ does not forgive the soldiers who are nailing him to the Cross; he asks the Father to forgive them. He knows as well as they do why they are doing this -- they are a squad, detailed to execute a criminal. They do not know what they are doing, because it is not their business, as executioners, to know whom they are crucifying. If the person who does me an injury does not know what he is doing, then it is as ridiculous for me to talk about forgiving him as it would be for me to "forgive" a tile which falls on my head in a gale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17766]]></link><description><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied.  Are they not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied.  Are they not then in strictest reason clear,   Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20012]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only got three dogs and two cats from Louisiana. All have been adopted. The first-hand experience we had with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33333]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only got three dogs and two cats from Louisiana. All have been adopted. The first-hand experience we had with these kitties is that they had been in cages for so long, we recommended the foster person to let them run and play. Both of the cats ran for two days straight. They were so active; they were a ball of energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don't let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don't let anyone or anything to get in your way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51732]]></link><description><![CDATA[And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisest have the most authority ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisest have the most authority]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many people who think that Sunday is a sponge to wipe out all the sins of the week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7898]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many people who think that Sunday is a sponge to wipe out all the sins of the week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the cleare we should see through it. -Jean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the cleare we should see through it. -Jean Paul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5807]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44087]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19481]]></link><description><![CDATA[No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I missed it. Plumb-bobbing is overrated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I missed it. Plumb-bobbing is overrated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66194]]></link><description><![CDATA[However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16188]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. - Essays and Aphorisms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the cock is silent. [Fr., C'est chose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the cock is silent. [Fr., C'est chose qui moult me deplaist,  Quand poule parle et coq se taist.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61917</guid></item></channel></rss>