<?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[Obviously, we're not going to let this go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, we're not going to let this go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   It was not a marriage only, but a marriage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   It was not a marriage only, but a marriage feast to which Christ conducted His disciples. Now, we cannot get over this plain fact by saying that it was a religious ceremony: that would be mere sophistry. It was an indulgence in the festivity of life; as plainly as words can describe, here was a banquet of human enjoyment. The very language of the master of the feast about men who had well drunk, tells us that there had been, not excess, of course, but happiness there, and merry-making. Neither can we explain away the lesson by saying that it is no example to us, for Christ was there to do good, and that what was safe for Him might be unsafe for us. For if His life is no pattern for us here in this case of accepting an invitation, in what can we be sure it is a pattern? Besides, He took His disciples there, and His mother was there: they were not shielded, as He was, by immaculate purity. He was there as a guest first, as Messiah only afterwards: thereby He declared the sacredness of natural enjoyments.... For Christianity does not destroy what is natural, but ennobles it. To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The energy of the mind is the essence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The energy of the mind is the essence of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silkes and Satins put out the fire in the chimney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silkes and Satins put out the fire in the chimney.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They didn't define what they were going to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37883]]></link><description><![CDATA[They didn't define what they were going to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15767]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to inquire tomorrow and perhaps make an issue out of it. I'm going to have to see where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37887]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to inquire tomorrow and perhaps make an issue out of it. I'm going to have to see where we stand .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd missed some easy shots and made some ordinary decisions . . . but (coach Al Westover) encourages us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd missed some easy shots and made some ordinary decisions . . . but (coach Al Westover) encourages us to shoot. Mac gave me the shot from the play we drew up and it felt good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."  "The question is," said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62027]]></link><description><![CDATA["The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."  "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the Bible itself is interpreted and understood in various ways, and so always becomes the center of sectarianism. Just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the Bible itself is interpreted and understood in various ways, and so always becomes the center of sectarianism. Just in the same way, dogmas and creeds cannot bring Christian unity, because human minds are not so uniformly created that they can unite in a single dogma or creed. Even our understanding of Christ Himself cannot be the basis of unity, because He is too big to be understood by any one person or group, and therefore our limited understandings do not always coincide. One emphasizes this point about Christ, another that; and this again becomes the cause of divisions. If we will only take our fellowship with Christ as the center of Christian faith, all Christians will realize their oneness... All our fellowship, however varied, is with the same Lord, and the same Saviour is our one Head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,   And make use of your wings while you may.    . . . .     But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite,      They at last found it dangerous play;       Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth,        Only dazzle to lead us astray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3777]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drive thy business, let not that drive thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of "taking chances" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25580]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things--either to lose your loan or lose your friend. [Lat., Si quis mutuum quid dederit, sit pro proprio perditum;  Cum repetas, inimicum amicum beneficio invenis tuo.   Si mage exigere cupias, duarum rerum exoritur optio;    Vel illud, quod credideris perdas, vel illum amicum, amiseris.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25580</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[Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the purpose of categorical algebra is to show that which is trivial, is trivially trivial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the purpose of categorical algebra is to show that which is trivial, is trivially trivial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2172]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fallen, how changed From him, who, in the happy realms of light,  Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50653]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fallen, how changed From him, who, in the happy realms of light,  Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine   Myriads, though bright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I observe that Christ and His forerunner John in their parabolic discourses were wont to allude to things present. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8436]]></link><description><![CDATA[I observe that Christ and His forerunner John in their parabolic discourses were wont to allude to things present. The old prophets, when they would describe things emphatically, did not only draw parables from things which offered themselves, as from the rent of a garment, ... from the vessels of a potter, ... but also, when such objects were wanting, they supplied them by their own actions, as by rending a garment, ... by shooting, ... etc. By such types the prophets loved to speak. And Christ, being endued with a nobler prophet spirit than the rest, excelled also in this kind of speaking, yet so as not to speak by His own actions -- [which would have been] less grave and decent -- but to turn into parables such things as offered themselves. On occasion of the harvest approaching, He admonishes His disciples once and again of the spiritual harvest. Seeing the lilies of the field, He admonishes His disciples about clothing. In allusion to the present season of fruits, He admonishes His disciples about knowing men by their fruits. In the time of the Passover, when trees put forth their leaves, He bids His disciples, "learn a parable from the fig-tree".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43346]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be illogical to say, 'Let's have a public meeting and say our offices are closed, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28330]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be illogical to say, 'Let's have a public meeting and say our offices are closed,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6039]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine;  Or leave a kiss but in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine;  Or leave a kiss but in the cup,   And I'll not look for wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   If you wanted a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   If you wanted a label for us, would you find a better than a Sadducean Age? We also are not worrying about immortality, hardly believe in it, or at least are not sure; we, too, have limited ourselves to this dust-speck of time, leaving unclaimed the vast inheritance beyond of which Christ told us; we, too, are putting all our zeal and passion and enthusiasm into things of this earth here, quite sure that that is the only road to progress, and that this everlasting chatter about the soul is quite beside the point. And they are all so earnest and so certain, work so hard, are animated often by such lofty motives, are so sure that there is really no manner of need for Christ: that given this, and this, and this, each of them pushing forward his particular panacea -- the world will manage very well; that to talk about Christ, and changing people's hearts, and making us new creatures, is merely to lose precious time and wander from the practical into vague day-dreaming of which nothing comes. And year by year their voices grow a little harder, and they eye Christ more and more askance, feel sourly that He is a bit of a nuisance and a stumbling-block to progress, keeping people quiet who should not be quiet, lulling them with these dim, immaterial, fantastic, spiritual hopes of His which they think have no body, and can not have. Once more the whisper grows, "Were He not far better away?" Meantime we can ignore Him, they say; and they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some places if you get to the Final Eight and lose to the No. 1 seed and win 32 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35490]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some places if you get to the Final Eight and lose to the No. 1 seed and win 32 games, there's 6,000 people waiting to meet you at the airport when you go home. But with us, with our tradition, people say, 'What happened?' We're just a team that came close . . . a team that almost had a chance to be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spencer's running across field calling out, 'come inside me, come inside me.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spencer's running across field calling out, 'come inside me, come inside me.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't have any attacks, it's easy to let the program slip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38966]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't have any attacks, it's easy to let the program slip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And trying to get to sleep earlier to avoid the morning "zombie effect" is pointless, he said: "The biological clock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62679]]></link><description><![CDATA[And trying to get to sleep earlier to avoid the morning "zombie effect" is pointless, he said: "The biological clock is extremely accurate and not easily changed. In a way, their brains are trying very hard to go back to sleep in the mornings."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43587]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53816]]></link><description><![CDATA[When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox,  Who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox,  Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up,   Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59653</guid></item></channel></rss>