<?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 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[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  It is not in the gifts He received but in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  It is not in the gifts He received but in the virtues He practiced that Christ is our model. That which is asked of you, so that you may resemble Him, is to make the same use as He did of the gifts of God, according to the measure in which you have received them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now old Tredgortha's dead and gone, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear an old grey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now old Tredgortha's dead and gone, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear an old grey coat,   All buttoned down before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick,  Being sick, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26716]]></link><description><![CDATA[In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick,  Being sick, have in some measure made me well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[There is an odd grammar in that sentence, which seems wrong, but is actually precise.] Close siblings were less common, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39538]]></link><description><![CDATA[[There is an odd grammar in that sentence, which seems wrong, but is actually precise.] Close siblings were less common, ... It seemed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the stag, and afterwards, when he has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51958]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the stag, and afterwards, when he has been caught, to skin him. [Lat., Et vulgariter dicitur, quod primun oportet cervum capere, et postea, cum captus fuerit, illum excoriare.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a good baseball game. I thought everything about that game was good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38204]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a good baseball game. I thought everything about that game was good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken,  And, contrary, the moment, when we say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken,  And, contrary, the moment, when we say   "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62765]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are innocent people ... Those criminals and terrorists came and did this to us, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are innocent people ... Those criminals and terrorists came and did this to us,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On every full moon, rituals such as the one described above take placeon hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61846]]></link><description><![CDATA[On every full moon, rituals such as the one described above take placeon hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers,teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists,lawyers, poets, plumbers,and auto mechanics - women and men from many backgrounds cometogether to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Danceof Life. The religion they practise is called Witchcraft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56414]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God wanted to redeem men and open the way of salvation to those who seek Him. But men make themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7807]]></link><description><![CDATA[God wanted to redeem men and open the way of salvation to those who seek Him. But men make themselves so unworthy of it that it is only just that God should refuse to some because of the hardness of heart what He gives to others from a compassion that they do not deserve. If He had wanted to overcome the obstinacy of the most hardened, He could have done so by revealing Himself to them so obviously that they could not have doubted the truth of His Being -- just as He will appear at the last day with such a clap of thunder and such an upheaval of nature that the dead will revive and the blindest will see. It is not in this way, however, that He willed to appear at His gentle coming: because so many men had made themselves unworthy of His mercy, He willed to leave them deprived of the good which they did not desire. And so it would not have been fair for Him to have appeared in an obviously divine manner, absolutely capable of convincing all men. But also it would not have been fair for Him to appear in a manner so hidden that even those who were sincerely seeking Him should not be able to recognize Him... So He has tempered His knowledge, by giving marks of Himself which were visible to those who seek Him, and not to those who seek Him not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64860]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill Not. Cause no pain.Mahavira, founder of the Jain religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill Not. Cause no pain.Mahavira, founder of the Jain religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66596]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a new system, but it is a lot like the system he ran with the Rams in the past. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30518]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a new system, but it is a lot like the system he ran with the Rams in the past. He's fit back into a system he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym and out there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45309]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29878]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36599]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a man bespake a think, Which when the owner home did bring,  He that made it did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60068]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a man bespake a think, Which when the owner home did bring,  He that made it did refuse it:   And he that brought it would not use it,    And he that hath it doth now know     Whether he hath it yea or no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's really good. I'm ecstatic and the girls are ecstatic. That's been one of our goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28819]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's really good. I'm ecstatic and the girls are ecstatic. That's been one of our goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idol-maker may know, more or less clearly, that he is only giving shape to the half-formed concept of God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idol-maker may know, more or less clearly, that he is only giving shape to the half-formed concept of God in his head; that his images are solid metaphors -- what we call symbols. The skeptical Greek philosopher may remind us that, after all, the image of Athena is only a symbol, only a means of fixing one's rambling thoughts upon the spirit that is Athena. Yet the idolater will persist in losing sight of the forest for the trees, and the god for the image. The gold and ivory statue of Athena becomes holy in itself, an answerer of prayer, a mysterious source of power, a material object somehow different from other objects. The crucifix, the plaster image, the saint's relic or miraculous medal or cheaply and illegibly printed Bible may become themselves things considered holy and magical, able to stop a bullet. Worse yet, the god confined in an image is a shrunken and powerless god. Because you have limited your concept of God to a man shape on a carved crucifix, you may be in danger of inferring that you are free to outrage the man shapes walking and breathing around you. Because you worship the god in a specially baked wafer and a specially designed chalice, you may forget to worship the God of all bread and all wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3735]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59346]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could do without your face, and your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and your bosom, and other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14069]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could do without your face, and your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and your bosom, and other of your charms. Indeed, not to fatigue myself with enumerating each of them, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, the implication is that there is something amiss, but I think that issue is far from settled. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, the implication is that there is something amiss, but I think that issue is far from settled. In fact, I believe that this government effort is a fishing expedition that unnecessarily disrupts the normal business operations of resellers and the manufacturers that supply them. If the government thought something was really wrong, they wouldn't have cast such a wide net to go hunting. I think this is a classic example of prosecutorial overreach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Performance is your reality. Forget everything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been on hold seven or eight times and disconnected. I called Well Care the other day and it said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29436]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been on hold seven or eight times and disconnected. I called Well Care the other day and it said to leave a message for a certain box, which is hard to do if you haven't called the plan before and don't have a box number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't see a lot of helicopters or concrete trucks this year, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33928]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't see a lot of helicopters or concrete trucks this year,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administration’s duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384  Christian men and women, old and young, should study well in the New ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384  Christian men and women, old and young, should study well in the New Testament, for it is of full authority, and open to understanding by simple men, as to the points that are most needful to salvation. Each part of Scripture, both open and dark, teaches meekness and charity; and therefore he that keeps meekness and charity has the true understanding and perfection of all Scripture. Therefore, no simple man of wit should be afraid to study in the text of Scripture. And no cleric should be proud of the true understanding of Scripture, because understanding of Scripture without charity that keeps God's commandments, makes a man deeper damned... and pride and covetousness of clerics is the cause of [the Church's] blindness and heresy, and deprives them of the true understanding of Scripture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The balance of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The balance of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5194]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5194</guid></item></channel></rss>