<?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[A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13913]]></link><description><![CDATA[A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives;  And partly, seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25137]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives;  And partly, seeing you are beautified   With goodly shape, and by your own report    A linguist, and a man of such perfection     As we do in our quality much want--]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,—how then? Can honour set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,—how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour; what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'T is insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I 'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24341]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have-for their usefulness. -Thomas Merton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57543]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said if you need to get your people out, you have to do it yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36334]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said if you need to get your people out, you have to do it yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are the portals of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9128]]></link><description><![CDATA[And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names,  Telling their strange and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26700]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names,  Telling their strange and vigorous faculties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. -Bill Cosby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. -Bill Cosby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we can take out any ads, ... because it would be misleading. We don't have any tickets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34497]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we can take out any ads, ... because it would be misleading. We don't have any tickets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even though you wish they were ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even though you wish they were]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52757]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52757</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/8281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57494]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62889]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a trip to Mexico [in 1984]... I fell ill... The illness was protracted... I suffered a mild depression... When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8413]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a trip to Mexico [in 1984]... I fell ill... The illness was protracted... I suffered a mild depression... When [an episcopal priest] prayed for my recovery, I choked up and wept. The only prayer I knew word for word was the Pater Noster. On that day and in the days after it, I found myself repeating the Lord's Prayer, again and again, and meaning every word of it. Quite suddenly, when I was awake one night, a light dawned on me, and I realized what had happened... After many years of affirming God's existence and trying to give adequate reasons for that affirmation, I found myself believing in God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is mold in the classroom. The heating and AC units leak. I have seen teachers have to move students ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39521]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is mold in the classroom. The heating and AC units leak. I have seen teachers have to move students out of the way because the AC unit is leaking on one side of the class. I saw a teacher move a row of kids over because water was leaking on one side of the room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got an invested interest in the school system having three kids in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got an invested interest in the school system having three kids in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I want is a little more than I'll ever get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24971]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You couldn't believe how crowded the gym was that night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33299]]></link><description><![CDATA[You couldn't believe how crowded the gym was that night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the first quarter, the earnings surprises have been getting smaller and we expect that to continue based on anecdotal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the first quarter, the earnings surprises have been getting smaller and we expect that to continue based on anecdotal evidence that analysts know the economy's moving faster and all the pre-announcements that come out now,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26649]]></link><description><![CDATA[All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43562]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well, George, that's more nearly your size.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader follows in front ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader follows in front]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort -- the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort -- the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing -- the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart is ever at your service, my lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55225]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart is ever at your service, my lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47335]]></link><description><![CDATA[All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fire of glory is the torch of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be a veterinarian when I grow up, because I really, really like helping animals and being with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be a veterinarian when I grow up, because I really, really like helping animals and being with animals, ... I've just liked that for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32015]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32015</guid></item></channel></rss>