<?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[And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37721]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My grandmother was a maid and baby sitter, ... From the time she was a teenager until she was 85 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36789]]></link><description><![CDATA[My grandmother was a maid and baby sitter, ... From the time she was a teenager until she was 85 years old, she was working for somebody. Both she and my mother took on whatever jobs they could. Anything to have an extra dime or quarter. They made tremendous sacrifices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From what I recollect, the audiences in India are very discerning and know how to appreciate real music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30822]]></link><description><![CDATA[From what I recollect, the audiences in India are very discerning and know how to appreciate real music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it needs better enforcement language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39200]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it needs better enforcement language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel we would not have a prayer's chance in hell in the Hernando County Jail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40963]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel we would not have a prayer's chance in hell in the Hernando County Jail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5042]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn. -Anon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn. -Anon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't try to control the uncontrollable and don't freak when life happens, just pick everything up and keep on going! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't try to control the uncontrollable and don't freak when life happens, just pick everything up and keep on going!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a strong confectionery business there at the moment, so this acquisition would represent a good strategic fit for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37782]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a strong confectionery business there at the moment, so this acquisition would represent a good strategic fit for us,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and almost never leave. Our lives are measured by those.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Western European civilization has witnessed a sort of atomizing process, in which the individual is more and more set free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Western European civilization has witnessed a sort of atomizing process, in which the individual is more and more set free from his natural setting in family and neighborhood, and becomes a sort of replaceable unit in the social machine, His nearest neighbors may not even know his name. He is free to move from place to place, from job to job, from acquaintance to acquaintance, and -- if he has attained a high degree of emancipation -- from wife to wife. He is in every context a more and more anonymous and replaceable part, the perfect incarnation of the rationalist conception of man. Wherever western civilization has spread in the past one hundred years, it has carried this atomizing process with it. Its characteristic product in Calcutta, Shanghai, or Johannesburg, is the modern city into which myriads of human beings, loosened from their old ties in village or tribe or caste, like grains of sand fretted by water from an ancient block of sandstone, are ceaselessly churned around in the whirlpool of the city -- anonymous, identical, replaceable units. In such a situation, it is natural that men should long for some sort of real community, for men cannot be human without it. It is especially natural that Christians should reach out after that part of Christian doctrine which speaks of the true, God-given community, the Church of Jesus Christ. We have witnessed the appalling results of trying to go back to some sort of primitive collectivity based on the total control of the individual, down to the depths of his spirit, by an all-powerful group. Yet we know that we cannot condemn this solution to the problem of man's loneliness if we have no other to offer. It is natural that men should ask with a greater eagerness than ever before, such questions as these: "Is there in truth a family of God on earth to which I can belong, a place where all men can be truly at home? If so, where is it to be found, what are its marks, and how is it related to, and dis tinguished from, the known communities of family, nation, and culture? What are its boundaries, its structure, its terms of membership? And how comes it that those who claim to be the spokesmen of that one holy fellowship are themselves at war with one another as to the fundamentals of its nature, and unable to agree to live together in unity and concord?" The breakdown of Christendom has forced such questions as these to the front. I think that there is no more urgent theological task than to try to give them plain and credible answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why it's nerve-wracking; you've just got to sit there. As a coach, you're helpless. There's nothing you can do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29652]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why it's nerve-wracking; you've just got to sit there. As a coach, you're helpless. There's nothing you can do, but it's fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think today's younger audience, ... would even know what 1920s musicals were like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think today's younger audience, ... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7056]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.  Thomas à Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ  [With thanks to Roger E. Doriot]    February 12, 1997  Ash Wednesday  Were Christians duly instructed how many lesser differences in mind and judgment and practice are really consistent with the nature, ends, and genuine fruit of the unity that Christ requires among them, it would undoubtedly prevail with them so as to manage themselves in their differences by mutual forbearance and condescension in their love, as not to contract the guilt of being disturbers or breakers of it. To speak plainly, among all the churches in the world which are free from idolatry and persecution, it is not different opinions, nor a difference in judgment about revealed truths, nor a different practice in sacred administrations, but pride, self-interest, love of honour, reputation, and dominion, with the influence of civil or political intrigues and considerations, that are the true cause of that defect of evangelical unity that is at this day amongst them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to die young as late as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to die young as late as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22807]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. -Joseph Addison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm spiritually close to you and pray for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm spiritually close to you and pray for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47661]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God provides for him that trusteth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49274]]></link><description><![CDATA[God provides for him that trusteth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56080]]></link><description><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's power to thunder. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55331]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To refuse graciously is to confer a favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15488]]></link><description><![CDATA[To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that I am a man of destiny. [Ger., Ich fuhl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals bin.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that I am a man of destiny. [Ger., Ich fuhl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals bin.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23357]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a journey...not a destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a journey...not a destination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  When everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  When everything we receive from him is received and prized as fruit and pledge of his covenant love, then his bounties, instead of being set up as rivals and idols to draw our heart from him, awaken us to fresh exercises of gratitude and furnish us with fresh motives of cheerful obedience every hour.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment, ... I think for him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39054]]></link><description><![CDATA[David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment, ... I think for him and the others it is a reward to be selected in the team and this will be a great incentive for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever says artists can't deal with corporate pressures because they have frail minds, is missing out on the potential the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever says artists can't deal with corporate pressures because they have frail minds, is missing out on the potential the artistic mind has to boost company morale and increase productivity. Most artists would just as soon quit once they become conscious of their exploitation and that is a sign of strength not weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How freaky is that? If this isn't an omen, I don't know what is. It did remind me 10 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28407]]></link><description><![CDATA[How freaky is that? If this isn't an omen, I don't know what is. It did remind me 10 years is a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember being 4 or 5 years old, sitting in front of a record player with headphones listening to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37312]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being 4 or 5 years old, sitting in front of a record player with headphones listening to my dad's albums,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, they tend to get (up to) one-and-a-half percent of traffic, so you sign up a couple billion-dollar exchanges ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30309]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, they tend to get (up to) one-and-a-half percent of traffic, so you sign up a couple billion-dollar exchanges and you are in good shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11407]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved--and not the reverse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul, that moment they are free. [Lat., Servi peregrini, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul, that moment they are free. [Lat., Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliae fines penetraverint eodem momento liberi sunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most business lines continue to exhibit strong sales during the quarter, including sales of consumer loans, deposits and credit cards, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most business lines continue to exhibit strong sales during the quarter, including sales of consumer loans, deposits and credit cards,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12102]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12102</guid></item></channel></rss>