<?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 great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17354]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power. How naive the cliche that money is the root of evil!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't open a shop unless you like to smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawn to the dregs of a democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawn to the dregs of a democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. [Lat., Quisquis magna dedit, voluit sibi magna remitti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. [Lat., Quisquis magna dedit, voluit sibi magna remitti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God. If thou understandest not... the things which are beneath thee, how shalt thou comprehend those which are above thee? Submit thyself unto God, and humble thy sense to faith, and the light of knowledge shall be given thee, as shall be profitable and necessary unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we believe we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we believe we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a hopeful cynic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10967]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a hopeful cynic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;  . . . .   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;  . . . .   The little waves, with their soft, white hands,    Efface the footprints in the sands,     And the tide rises, the tide falls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mockery is the weapon of those who have no other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mockery is the weapon of those who have no other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as the felon condemn'd to die-- With a very natural loathing--  Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as the felon condemn'd to die-- With a very natural loathing--  Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes,   From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes,    To caper on sunny greens and slopes,     Instead of the dance upon nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. Ralph Nichols -Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9079]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. Ralph Nichols -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tacticalmisrepresentation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21770]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tacticalmisrepresentation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing the most intense bargaining among big states that we have seen since the end of the Cold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35953]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing the most intense bargaining among big states that we have seen since the end of the Cold War, with war in the offing and no certainty about the outcome,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch ofbastards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch ofbastards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, Microsoft has behaved like the clear-cutters of the computer software industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34576]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, Microsoft has behaved like the clear-cutters of the computer software industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dropped our very first pass, but the first touchdown was a perfect pass from Aaron. The defender had no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31511]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dropped our very first pass, but the first touchdown was a perfect pass from Aaron. The defender had no chance. We got some more great pass protection on the second pass. Neff just threw it up for me to go get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8376]]></link><description><![CDATA[People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are. The ground upon which good character rests is the very same ground from which man's work derives its value, namely, a mind wholly turned to God. Verily, if you were so minded, you might tread on a stone and it would be a more pious work than if you, simply for your own profit, were to receive the Body of the Lord and were wanting in spiritual detachment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe not a liar, even when he is speaking the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48888]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe not a liar, even when he is speaking the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird loves her nest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird loves her nest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the broom I take in my hands to sweep the world clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the broom I take in my hands to sweep the world clean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand theuniverse without God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand theuniverse without God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think other benefits are being utilized today more often than sabbaticals as retention tools. Instead of giving us six ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think other benefits are being utilized today more often than sabbaticals as retention tools. Instead of giving us six weeks off a year, employees are demanding more day to day flexibility, like the ability to telecommute, flex-time and child care or elder-care benefits. Those are the other areas where we are seeing real growth, while sabbaticals are sort of going up and down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest form of wisdom is kindness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest form of wisdom is kindness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space, In twilight land, in no man's land,  Two hurrying shapes met face to face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space, In twilight land, in no man's land,  Two hurrying shapes met face to face   And bade each other stand.    "And who are you?" cried one, a-gape,     Shuddering in the glimmering light.      "I know not," said the second shape,       "I only died last night."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin  At him here;   But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin  At him here;   But the old three-cornered hat    And the breeches and all that     Are so queer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free throws, free throws. We missed some key free throws and we've been good with free throws. I think today ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free throws, free throws. We missed some key free throws and we've been good with free throws. I think today we just couldn't get them in there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very settled in the North East now. I'll have been here nearly six years by the end of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39345]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very settled in the North East now. I'll have been here nearly six years by the end of this season and I feel like the people of Sunderland have adopted me,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51628]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If it be all for naught, for nothingness At last, why does God make the world so fair? Why spill this golden splendor out across The western hills, and light the silver lamp Of eve? Why give me eyes to see, and soul To love so strong and deep? Then, with a pang This brightness stabs me through, and wakes within Rebellious voice to cry against all death? Why set this hunger for eternity To gnaw my heartstrings through, if death ends all? If death ends all, then evil must be good, Wrong must be right, and beauty ugliness.  God is a Judas who betrays His Son, And with a kiss, damns all the world to hell, -- If Christ rose not again.   ... Unknown soldier, killed in World War I  August 9, 2002 Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 Concluding a short series of verse on Christ: With this ambiguous earth his dealings have been told us. These abide:    The signal to a maid, the human birth,    The lesson, and the young Man crucified. But not a star of all the innumerable host of stars has heard    How he administered this terrestrial ball.    Our race has kept their Lord's entrusted Word. Of his earth-visiting feet none knows the secret, cherished, perilous,    The terrible, shamefast, frightened, whispered, sweet,    Heart-shattering secret of his way with us. No planet knows that this, our wayside planet, carrying land and wave,    Love and life multiplied, and pain and bliss,    Bears, as its chief treasure, one forsaken grave. Nor, in our little day, may his devices with the heavens be guessed,    His pilgrimage to thread the Milky Way    Or his bestowal there be manifest. But in the eternities, doubtless we shall compare    Together, hear a million alien Gospels, in what guise    He trod the Pleiades, the Lyre, and the Bear. O, be prepared, my soul! To read the inconceivable, to scan    The million forms of God those stars unroll    When, in our turn, we show to them a Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49044]]></link><description><![CDATA[A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58311]]></link><description><![CDATA[True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25590]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's privacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17231]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm able to work with guys who are able to do what they want with a baseball and understand pitching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm able to work with guys who are able to do what they want with a baseball and understand pitching concepts and the approach they need to take, it is a relief in a sense because I'm able to communicate with them on a better level to understand pitching. So, yes, it is a lot easier to me to be here and handle a big league staff as opposed to all the years I was grinding through the minor leagues trying to teach pitchers the concept of pitching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction. -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction. -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16697]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those  Who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those  Who do us none at all.   [Lat., Non rete accipitri tenditur, neque miluo,    Qui male faciunt nobis: illis qui nihil faciunt tenditur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had so many guys contribute tonight. Everybody was hitting their shots and playing well. It's nice to get contributions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had so many guys contribute tonight. Everybody was hitting their shots and playing well. It's nice to get contributions from a lot of people. That takes the pressure off of other players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31688</guid></item></channel></rss>