<?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[As Christians we believe that man is not a thing; he is not a commodity to be bought and sold, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6192]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Christians we believe that man is not a thing; he is not a commodity to be bought and sold, and he is not to be used in an impersonal way. Man, a child of God, is a person with a personal destiny and with eternal value. This Christian belief underlies the democratic principle that the State, first of all, exists for the sake of its citizens; the individual is important... As Christians we also believe that we are made for one another because we are made for God. "Solidarity" is a good word for our essential condition. Beneath all our differences is a unity... This Christian belief underlies a second basic democratic principle, which is, in governing themselves, people of a community -- in a town, a city, a state, a nation -- can, despite inevitable conflicts, press effectively toward the goal of justice and liberty for all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to think I have a great deal of expertise, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31098]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to think I have a great deal of expertise,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make the plough go before the horse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45263]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make the plough go before the horse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man makes a god of his own desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man makes a god of his own desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35493]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His glassy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55383]]></link><description><![CDATA[But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a symbolic act on her part recognizing that the person who represents the Queen as the commander-in-chief of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38462]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a symbolic act on her part recognizing that the person who represents the Queen as the commander-in-chief of the Canadian Forces doesn't want to be in a position where anyone might say she has divided loyalties. I don't believe for a second she would have had them, but symbols are important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31361]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36814]]></link><description><![CDATA[With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is reallyaccording to order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is reallyaccording to order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing good demand for the euro. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30650]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing good demand for the euro.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18584]]></link><description><![CDATA[She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm interested not only in that it's beautiful and that it's Gorham, but also what it tells us about society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm interested not only in that it's beautiful and that it's Gorham, but also what it tells us about society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's like John Havlicek right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36086]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's like John Havlicek right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to decide right now, it would be between Kansas, Indiana and Baylor. I am not ready to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32711]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to decide right now, it would be between Kansas, Indiana and Baylor. I am not ready to make a decision now. I just want to finish out the season, and then I will be ready to make a decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing I was concerned about is it looked to me from the sideline like (Thomas) might have chopped ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing I was concerned about is it looked to me from the sideline like (Thomas) might have chopped Mark Campbell to cause the pileup, which is illegal. If he didn't do that, then the kid made a great play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps. One generation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps. One generation plants trees, and the next enjoys the shade. If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was obvious while shooting 'Anchorman' that Steve was stealing many a scene. So being a wily producer, I asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39255]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was obvious while shooting 'Anchorman' that Steve was stealing many a scene. So being a wily producer, I asked him if he had any ideas for movies that he could star in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65620]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17644]]></link><description><![CDATA[God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let all live as they would die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let all live as they would die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14848]]></link><description><![CDATA[A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards any agreement or unity, it must be by fixing this principle in the minds of all men -- that it is of no advantage to any man whatever church or way in Christian religion he be of, unless he personally believe the promises, and live in obedience unto all the precepts of Christ; and that for him who doth so, it is a trampling of the whole gospel under foot to say that his salvation could be endangered by his not being of this or that church or way, especially considering how much of the world hath inmixed itself into all the known ways that are in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18353]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our view, these proceedings could drag on for many quarters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32038]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our view, these proceedings could drag on for many quarters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32038</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[Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To change and to change for the better are two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22139]]></link><description><![CDATA[To change and to change for the better are two different things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43243]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6535]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of legalism that the will of God must appear to it as a multiplicity of commandments. In actual fact, it is one and indivisible; God wants nothing else except love because He Himself is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  "And what is the second?" Then, dancing a jig   And bowing profoundly, he said, "A great wig."    "And what is the third?" Then he snored like a pig,     And puffing his cheeks out, he replied, "A great wig."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will not be a new target for the eradication of polio. Every country in the world could stop polio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30810]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will not be a new target for the eradication of polio. Every country in the world could stop polio by the end of 2005 save Nigeria. Basically the world, at the start of 2006, will look at who is late, and work to make that process move faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35301]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This gives us a very persistent presence in these portals and browsers, with voice-over-IP [Internet protocol], ... The ability to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42515]]></link><description><![CDATA[This gives us a very persistent presence in these portals and browsers, with voice-over-IP [Internet protocol], ... The ability to attach other services and applications to that voice service was very much a part of our strategy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dog and the ShadowA DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dog and the ShadowA DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1521</guid></item></channel></rss>