<?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[In the 1990s we had difficulty getting kids home from school, ... It's a precaution because we don't want little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33957]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1990s we had difficulty getting kids home from school, ... It's a precaution because we don't want little kids out in that kind of weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A white wall is the paper of a foole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49084]]></link><description><![CDATA[A white wall is the paper of a foole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2324]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17959]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still fighting for home-field advantage in the first round of against Dallas. Even if we could catch first place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still fighting for home-field advantage in the first round of against Dallas. Even if we could catch first place we've still got to wrap up second, so it doesn't make much of a difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall with awareness and acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall with awareness and acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough is as good as a feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough is as good as a feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do the wordsof the Peaceful Masterbecome the tiradesof warmonger pastors? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8229]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do the wordsof the Peaceful Masterbecome the tiradesof warmonger pastors?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I assumed there would be an influx of women on the podium, but there are not many more at my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41632]]></link><description><![CDATA[I assumed there would be an influx of women on the podium, but there are not many more at my level than there were 20 years ago. Maybe boards don't want to hire women because they don't meet the archetypal image of the maestro.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's another tough loss. These three-point losses are killing me. We just didn't make the plays when we needed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's another tough loss. These three-point losses are killing me. We just didn't make the plays when we needed to and they did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53410]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any excuse will serve a tyrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any excuse will serve a tyrant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540   The attitude of Jesus to the Jewish law was singularly free and unembarrassed. He made full use of it as an impressive statement of high ethical ideals; even its ritual practices He treated with perfect tolerance where they did not conflict with fundamental moral obligations. From Pharisaic formalism He appealed to the relative simplicity of the venerable written Law. But again from the written Law itself He appealed to the basic rights and duties of humanity: the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath; the Law might permit the dissolution of marriage, but there was something more deeply rooted in the nature of things which forbade it; the [law of retaliation], the central principle of legal justice, must go overboard in the interest of the holy impulse to love your neighbor, not merely as yourself, but as God has loved you. Such freehanded dealing meant that the whole notion of morality as a code of rules, with sanctions of rewards and punishments, was abandoned. But the average Christian was slow to see this implication. For instance, Jesus had taken fasting out of the class of meritorious acts, and given it a place only as the fitting and spontaneous expression of certain spiritual states. This is what an early authoritative catechism of the Church made of His teaching: "Let not your fast be made with the hypocrites, for they fast on Monday and Thursday; ye therefore shall fast on Wednesday and Friday." It sounds ludicrous, but we may ask, Was it not on some very similar principle that the Church did actually carry through its reconstruction of "religious observance"? And a Church which so perverted Christ's treatment of the ritual law proved itself almost equally incapable of understanding His drastic revision of the moral law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 5. the ministry of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 5. the ministry of bearing   "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ" (Gal. 6:2). Thus the law of Christ is a law of bearing. Bearing means forbearing and sustaining...   The Christian must suffer and endure the brother. It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated. It is, first of all, the freedom of the other person that is a burden to the Christian. The freedom of the other person includes all that we mean by a person's nature, individuality, endowment. It also includes his weaknesses and oddities, which are such a trial to our patience, everything that produces frictions, conflicts, and collisions among us.   Then, there is the abuse of that freedom that becomes a burden for the Christian. In sin, fellowship with God and with his brother are broken. To cherish no contempt for the sinner but rather to prize the privilege of bearing him means not to have to give him up as lost, to be able to accept him, to preserve fellowship with him through forgiveness...   The service of forgiveness is rendered by one to the others daily. It occurs, without words, in the intercessions for one another. He who is bearing others knows that he himself is being borne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Platonic love is love from the neck up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Platonic love is love from the neck up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10040]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  [John Bunyan] had to live through that obscure night -- "wide, vast, and lonely" -- which fell upon St. John of the Cross before; like him, he knew that grace would enter "the dark caverns where the senses live". In the meantime, Bunyan tossed to and fro, as it were between heaven and hell. It has been said that he paints too dark a picture of his moral condition when a young man, that he exaggerates his wickedness at this period, and afterwards wrestles with phantoms of his vivid imagination. But spiritual sins, though not so obvious as those that are sensual, may be just as real; and Bunyan's intensity of feeling and expression arose from the intensity of his spiritual nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42963]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,  They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking,   But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking    How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho!     How pleasant it is to have money!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you can become you are already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21928]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you can become you are already.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The still small voice of gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18155]]></link><description><![CDATA[The still small voice of gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59700]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to be the leading investment bank in the world, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39094]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to be the leading investment bank in the world,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26116]]></link><description><![CDATA[So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. [Lat., Ita enim finitima sunt falsa veris ut in praecipitem locum non debeat se sapiens committere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The entire Old Testament] ground-plan is the whole scheme of Messianic prophecy, from the germinal revelation in Genesis concerning the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6677]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The entire Old Testament] ground-plan is the whole scheme of Messianic prophecy, from the germinal revelation in Genesis concerning the suffering, yet triumphant Seed of the Woman to the coming to His Temple of the long-absent "Angel of the Covenant" in Malachi. That hope alone explains the Book, giving meaning and consistency to its story. Was it a chimera, an hallucination? According to the prophecy of Micah, the messianic Shepherd of Israel had to be born in Bethlehem. It is unthinkable that an heir to the throne of David could be born in Bethlehem now, and be also able to prove his legitimacy by documentary evidence. The event must clearly have taken place already, or Micah is a false prophet, a raiser of false hopes, along with the other writers in the Old Testament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50385]]></link><description><![CDATA[What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Athletics should reduce stress, not increase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Athletics should reduce stress, not increase it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you put a dog on a chain, it's going to get aggressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37264]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you put a dog on a chain, it's going to get aggressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49520]]></link><description><![CDATA[If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, Advanced a stage or two upon that road  Which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, Advanced a stage or two upon that road  Which you must travel in the steps they trod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations ... can never effect a reform. -Susan B. Anthony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations ... can never effect a reform. -Susan B. Anthony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10441]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65513]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strict law is often great injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strict law is often great injustice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanlon's Razor:"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanlon's Razor:"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25771]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're trying to tell our family: Shut up or this is going to happen again. The McCartney family opened a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37875]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're trying to tell our family: Shut up or this is going to happen again. The McCartney family opened a lot of eyes in Belfast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57338</guid></item></channel></rss>