<?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[Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22014]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has called the laity to be his basic ministers. He has called some to be "player-coaches" ... to equip ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6220]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has called the laity to be his basic ministers. He has called some to be "player-coaches" ... to equip the laity for the ministry they are to fulfill. This equipping ministry is of unique importance. One is appointed to this ministry by the Holy Spirit; therefore it must be undertaken with utmost seriousness. This is a radical departure from the traditional understanding of the roles of the laity and the clergy. The laity had the idea that they were already committed to a "full-time" vocation in the secular world, [and] thus they did not have time -- at least, much time -- to do God's work. Therefore they contributed money to "free" the clergy to have the time needed to fulfill God's ministry. This view is rank heresy. If we follow this pattern, we may continue to do God's work until the Lord comes again and never fulfill God's purpose as it ought to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success... it's what you do with what you've got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success... it's what you do with what you've got.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15478]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19051]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment. •Bible   Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat. •Gaelic Proverb   There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. •Gilbert K. Chesterton   If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. •Arabian Proverb   The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. •Benjamin Franklin   See with your mind, hear with your heart. •Kurdish Proverb   Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together. •David Hare   Were it not for hope the heart would break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56093]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63434]]></link><description><![CDATA[There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18648]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or light or dark, or short or tall, She sets a springe to snare them all:  All's one to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or light or dark, or short or tall, She sets a springe to snare them all:  All's one to her--above her fan   She'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make a defence or apology before you be accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of the Last Supper, scene of the Resurrection appearances when the doors were shut, scene now of their waiting for the Spirit. Whose is it? The clue lies in Acts 12, where St. Peter, strangely freed from Herod's prison, knows at whose house they will be gathered for prayer. He knocks, startles the gate-girl Rhoda. It was "the house of Mary the mother of John whose surname was Mark" -- the young man who was to write the earliest of the gospels. The first meeting place of any Christian congregation was the home of a woman in Jerusalem. Something of the sort happens everywhere. The church in Caesarea centres upon Philip the Evangelist. "Now this man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy." ... Joppa church depends on Tabitha, "a woman full of good works and almsdeeds which she did". Follow St. Paul about the Mediterranean. He crosses to Europe because he dreams of a man from Macedonia who cries, "Come over and help us". But when he lands at Philippi it is not a man, but a woman. "Lydia was baptized and her household" -- his first convert in Europe, a woman. Everywhere women are the most notable of the converts, often the only ones who believe. In Thessalonica there are "of the chief women not a few"; Beroea, "Greek women of honourable estate"; Athens, only two names, one of them, Damaris, a woman. At Corinth Priscilla and Aquila come into the story, the pair always mentioned together, and four times out of the six with the wife's name first, a thing undreamed of in the first century. Why? Because she counted for more in church affairs -- hostess of the church in her houses in Corinth, Ephesus and Rome, chief instructress of Apollos the missionary, intimate of the greatest missionary of all, St. Paul. Six times in the Epistles greetings are sent to a house-church, and in five cases the church is linked with a woman's name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout  Till you have drenched our steeples, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout  Till you have drenched our steeples, downed the cocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted real kids. I didn't want Hollywood kids doing weird accents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted real kids. I didn't want Hollywood kids doing weird accents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  We can reach the point where it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  We can reach the point where it becomes possible for us to recognize and understand Original Sin, that dark counter-centre of evil in our nature -- that is to say, though it is not our nature, it is of it -- that something within us which rejoices when disaster befalls the very cause we are trying to serve, or misfortune overtakes even those we love. Life in God is not an escape from this, but a way to gain full insight concerning it. It is not our depravity which forces a fictitious religious explanation upon us, but the experience of religious reality which forces the "Night Side" out into the light. It is when we stand in the righteous all-seeing light of love that we can dare to look at, admit, and consciously suffer under this something in us which wills disaster, misfortune, defeat to everything outside the sphere of our narrowest self interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66340]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! -King Henry V. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55969]]></link><description><![CDATA[An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 8.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind forgets but the heart always remembers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind forgets but the heart always remembers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is a philosophical reason...The resources on earth won't last forever, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is a philosophical reason...The resources on earth won't last forever,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17618]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without wishing to prejudge the criminal investigations and our own club investigation, I am deeply concerned about the actions of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without wishing to prejudge the criminal investigations and our own club investigation, I am deeply concerned about the actions of a minority of my players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government must speak for you, and the nation, which are the same. That is the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government must speak for you, and the nation, which are the same. That is the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Direct The clasping ivy where to climb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Direct The clasping ivy where to climb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Replacing McCabe was a big step for Jake. He had seasoned kids around him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Replacing McCabe was a big step for Jake. He had seasoned kids around him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi  Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se   Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11277]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With any bank consolidation, there are efficiencies to be gained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41947]]></link><description><![CDATA[With any bank consolidation, there are efficiencies to be gained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good teacher is a determined person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66206]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good teacher is a determined person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42732]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In fair weather prepare for foul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66255]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fair weather prepare for foul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47066]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1694]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America—and change soon. We must help that change to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the step-mother of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the step-mother of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain—then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. -Alphonse de Lamartine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18364</guid></item></channel></rss>