<?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[The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11929]]></link><description><![CDATA[I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray, Like the divining rods of Magi old,  Where precious wealth lies buried, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray, Like the divining rods of Magi old,  Where precious wealth lies buried, not of gold,   But love--strong love, that never can decay!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century  "The Law", he says, "was our 'pedagogue', until Christ should come." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century  "The Law", he says, "was our 'pedagogue', until Christ should come." Those words have been interpreted as though they described the Law as a preparatory education, continued at a higher stage by Christ. That, however, is not quite what Paul meant. The "pedagogue" in Greek society was not a schoolmaster, he did not give lessons. He was a slave who accompanied a boy to school, and both waited upon him and exercised a supervision which interfered with the boy's freedom of action. He is, in fact, a figure in the little allegory which Paul gives us to illustrate the position of the People of God before Christ came. There was a boy left heir to a great estate. He was a minor, and so must have guardians and trustees. He was as helpless in their hands as if he had been a slave. He must live on the allowance they gave him, and follow their wishes from day to day. They gave him a "pedagogue" to keep him out of mischief. He could not please himself, or realize his own purposes and ambitions. Yet all the time he was the heir; the estate was his, and no one else's. Just so the People of God, the Divine Commonwealth, was cramped and fettered by ignorance and evil times. It remained in uneasy expectation of one day coming into active existence. At last the heir came of age: guardians and trustees abdicated their powers, and the grown man possessed in full realization all that was his. So now the fettered life of the Divine Commonwealth bursts its bonds and comes into active existence... The intervention of law was not a reversal of God's original and eternal purpose of pure love and grace towards men, it only subserved that purpose, while it seemed to contradict it, just as the presence of the "pedagogus" might seem to the high-spirited young heir quite contrary to the rights secured to him by his father's will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45129]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. - Aenid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. - Aenid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/962]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Mahfouz.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3234]]></link><description><![CDATA[What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am more concerned than ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am more concerned than ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32561]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems small, ... but Latinos and Hispanics are concentrated in some very important states: California, New York, Florida and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems small, ... but Latinos and Hispanics are concentrated in some very important states: California, New York, Florida and Texas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have one message for those cowards, the killers that actually did what they did last week: There's no place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29717]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have one message for those cowards, the killers that actually did what they did last week: There's no place you could hide; there's no place in this region where it's going to be safe for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Practice) wasn't very pretty at times today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31690]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Practice) wasn't very pretty at times today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The promoter called and said, 'What should we do?' People were calling to say they were sure it was canceled, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The promoter called and said, 'What should we do?' People were calling to say they were sure it was canceled, but I thought that to have a public event that night would be a good idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38124]]></link><description><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear if forced to flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear if forced to flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day  When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day  When the sun is out and the wind is still,   You're one month on in the middle of May.    But if you so much as dare to speak,     A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,      A wind comes off a frozen peak,       And you're two months back in the middle of March.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can find my biography in every fable that I read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can find my biography in every fable that I read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43600]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to be mean or anything, but I don't like girls, because they just want to bother you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to be mean or anything, but I don't like girls, because they just want to bother you all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good questions outrank easy answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good questions outrank easy answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was 10th my first year. I finished fifth the next year and third last season, now I'm looking to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was 10th my first year. I finished fifth the next year and third last season, now I'm looking to win it all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail  In monumental mockery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51276]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail  In monumental mockery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is obtained by war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is obtained by war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62550]]></link><description><![CDATA[In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads--God knows where. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62010]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads--God knows where.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All's fair in love and war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61137]]></link><description><![CDATA[All's fair in love and war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19195]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask betterquestions, and as a result, they get better answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask betterquestions, and as a result, they get better answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried their talents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has his besetting sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has his besetting sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7279]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is only a higher moral truth; but to turn to Christ is far more important than to turn to higher moral truth: it is to turn the face towards Him in whom is all moral truth; it is to turn to HIm in whom is not only the virtue which corresponds to the known vice from which the penitent wishes to flee, but all virtue; it is to turn the face to all holiness, all purity, all grace. It was this repentance which the apostles preached after Pentecost.  ... Roland Allen, Pentecost and the World  ... Also see comments on this book in Bookworms August 23, 2000 Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true: To think without confusion clearly, To love his fellow men sincerely, To act from honest motives purely, To trust in God and heaven securely.   ... Henry van Dyke August 24, 2000 Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle Beginning a short series on the Bible:  The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God hath made this world so fair,Where sin and death abound,How beautiful beyond compareWill paradise be found!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11293]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God hath made this world so fair,Where sin and death abound,How beautiful beyond compareWill paradise be found!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16553</guid></item></channel></rss>