<?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["You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?" Oh that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27961]]></link><description><![CDATA["You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?" Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night -- I changed the lock!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Owing to the pressure of an ever-increasing number of subjects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Owing to the pressure of an ever-increasing number of subjects introduced into the curriculum of a school, it is only too possible for men to be held to be educated and intelligent without ever having seriously tested their intelligence upon, say, the Book of Job, or upon the Epistle of Paul to the Romans. No doubt there are very good excuses for this lack of discipline. Many forward-thinking men will tell you that the Bible is not worth serious attention, that it is simple, trivial, and out-of-date; and so, even though you may hear the Bible read, read it yourselves, or even study it, the tension of your energy may be relaxed -- subtly relaxed. But is quite certain that a widespread relaxation of the tension of Biblical interpretation has disastrous effects. For there is no corruption that threatens a country so surely as the corruption or sentimentalizing of its religion; and there is no corruption of the Christian religion so swift as that which sets in when the Church loses its strict Biblical discipline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best proof of love is trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best proof of love is trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This group is rich in talent and personality. They embody the spirit of Wake Forest field hockey and I look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37816]]></link><description><![CDATA[This group is rich in talent and personality. They embody the spirit of Wake Forest field hockey and I look forward to their contributions as student-athletes. I have faith in their ability to keep up the strong tradition of Wake Forest hockey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17438]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it soon cut off, and we fly away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't see major corporations abandoning their e-mail infrastructure, but they are beginning to seek outsourcing to handle things like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34610]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't see major corporations abandoning their e-mail infrastructure, but they are beginning to seek outsourcing to handle things like remote mail and calendaring, ... Messaging Online.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53420]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heavyweight division takes as much of a blow on this as Bob Arum did. It's not good for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30307]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heavyweight division takes as much of a blow on this as Bob Arum did. It's not good for the heavyweight division. You can't cry over spilled milk. Whatever is left out there, you have to make the best of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than the years;  And should he doubt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59976]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than the years;  And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth,   That I should open to the list'ning air    How many worthy princes' bloods were shed     To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope,      To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms       And make pretense of wrong that I have done him;        When all, for mine, if I may call offense,         Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence;          Which love to all, of which thyself art one,           Who now reproved'st me for't--]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50543]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51951]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They didn't have a strong inside game, but their outside game was good. They knew how to get open shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40791]]></link><description><![CDATA[They didn't have a strong inside game, but their outside game was good. They knew how to get open shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24545]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such  As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12629]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such  As see not the First Cause entire: and ye,   O mortal men! be wary how ye judge:    For we, who see the Maker, know not yet     The number of the chosen; and esteem      Such scantiness of knowledge our delight:       For all good is, in that primal good,        Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. - O America, 1977.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We compliment ourselves on being a pressure team. There is no magic to it. Our players just understand how important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34081]]></link><description><![CDATA[We compliment ourselves on being a pressure team. There is no magic to it. Our players just understand how important special teams can be in every game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17647]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this.  A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22652]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think all great innovations are built on rejections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think all great innovations are built on rejections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires  And introduces hunger, frost, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires  And introduces hunger, frost, and woe,   Where peace and hospitality might reign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't seen this kind of support [for a tax cut] in the 26 years I've been in Congress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30199]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't seen this kind of support [for a tax cut] in the 26 years I've been in Congress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65477]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its nice to enjoy the win, but we won't be happy until we get into the playoffs. Our goal now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its nice to enjoy the win, but we won't be happy until we get into the playoffs. Our goal now is to get ready for Tuesday night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53220]]></link><description><![CDATA[To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be the most important hockey game of my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be the most important hockey game of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can act. And you may well say "act". For what I call "myself" (for all practical, everyday purposes) is also a dramatic construction; memories, glimpses in the shavinglass, and snatches of the very fallible activity called "introspection", are the principal ingredients. Normally I call this construction "me"' and the stage set "the real world". Now the moment of prayer is for me -- or involves for me as its condition -- the awareness, the reawakened awareness, that this "real world" and "real self" are very far from being rock-bottom realities. I cannot, in the flesh, leave the stage, either to go behind the scenes or to take my seat in the pit; but I can remember that these regions exist. And I also remember that my apparent self -- this clown or hero or super -- under his grease-paint is a real person with an off-stage life. The dramatic person could not tread the stage unless he concealed a real person: unless the real and unknown I existed, I would not even make mistakes about the imagined me. And in prayer this real I struggles to speak, for once, from his real being, and to address, for once, not the other actors, but -- what shall I call Him? The Author, for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the Audience, for He watches, and will judge, the performance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8866]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riding turns 'I wish' into 'I can'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riding turns 'I wish' into 'I can'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9061]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in the middle of a tax revolution, and this is evidence of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41994]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in the middle of a tax revolution, and this is evidence of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9534]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And last the Vice and Follies of the Age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60499]]></link><description><![CDATA[And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50756</guid></item></channel></rss>