<?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[You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53997]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She trains with the boys. There's no reason why she can't be one of the top 10 runners in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41765]]></link><description><![CDATA[She trains with the boys. There's no reason why she can't be one of the top 10 runners in the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of totally unacceptable employees -- those who can't do what they're told and those who can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32321]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of totally unacceptable employees -- those who can't do what they're told and those who can't do anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7588]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He was in Galilee, men could not find Him in Jerusalem; if He was in Jerusalem, men could not find Him in Galilee. His Ascension means that He is perfectly united with God; we are with Him wherever we are present to God; and that is everywhere and always. Because He is "in Heaven" He is everywhere on earth: because He is ascended, He is here now. Our devotion is not to hold us by the empty tomb; it must lift up our hearts to heaven so that we too "in heart and mind thither ascend and with Him continually dwell": it must also send us forth into the world to do His will; and these are not two things, but one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never exaggerate. I just remember big. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never exaggerate. I just remember big.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47468]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/442]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This development today means justice and home affairs ministers are willing to accept a legal process that will let all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35202]]></link><description><![CDATA[This development today means justice and home affairs ministers are willing to accept a legal process that will let all branches of government decide the issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60152]]></link><description><![CDATA[What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62310]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs.  And he clothes them with thunders and beauty,   He clothes them with music and fire,    Seeing not, as he bows by their altars,     That he worships his own desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62211]]></link><description><![CDATA[He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist Beginning a short series about the early church:   Now if all these things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist Beginning a short series about the early church:   Now if all these things should come to pass, the determined expectation of which caused the Jews to reject Christ -- if he should actually appear, with miraculous splendor, as the restorer of the Jewish nation, and city, and Temple, reigning over the whole world as a great earthly sovereign, and reserving peculiar privileges for his own nation -- if, I say, all these expectations should be fulfilled, to which the Jews have so long and so obstinately clung, surely this would not be so much a conversion of the Jews to Christianity as a conversion of Christians to Judaism; it would not be bringing the Jews to the gospel by overcoming their national prejudices, but rather carrying back the gospel to meet the Jewish prejudices; it would be destroying the spiritual character of our religion, and establishing those erroneous views which have hitherto caused the Jews to reject it. We may conclude, then, that all the promises and predictions in Scripture relative to the future glories of the Jews and of Jerusalem, are to be understood of the Christian church, of which the Jewish church was a figure; and all that is said of feasting, and splendor, and wealth, and worldly greatness and enjoyment, is to be interpreted spiritually of the inward comfort and peace of mind, and "joy of the Holy Ghost", which is promised to sincere Christians in this life, and of the unspeakable happiness prepared for them after death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility is the price of freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility is the price of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is entitled to the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1023]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is entitled to the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9609]]></link><description><![CDATA[In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's preposterous, but [director Doug] Liman gives it such a seductive, playfully hip texture that you happily embrace the fantasy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's preposterous, but [director Doug] Liman gives it such a seductive, playfully hip texture that you happily embrace the fantasy. ... Brad and Angelina are the whole show here. They bring out the best in each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As pure as a pearl, And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5791]]></link><description><![CDATA[As pure as a pearl, And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  There can be no end without means; and God furnishes no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  There can be no end without means; and God furnishes no means that exempt us from the task and duty of joining our own best endeavors. The original stock, or wild olive tree, of our natural powers, was not given to us to be burnt or blighted, but to be grafted on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. [Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51675]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. [Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She really knows the difference. She is always smelling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29323]]></link><description><![CDATA[She really knows the difference. She is always smelling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Continuing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Continuing a short series on prayer:  Even if all the things that people prayed for happened -- which they do not -- this would not prove what Christians mean by the efficacy of prayer. For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them. Invariable "success" in prayer would not prove the Christian doctrine at all. It would prove something more like magic -- a power in certain human beings to control, or compel, the course of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Records aren't what come to mind. The markets are improving, but they're not red hot. Local employers are still moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Records aren't what come to mind. The markets are improving, but they're not red hot. Local employers are still moving with caution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10015]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do that all the time, and it's not just something I'm making up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do that all the time, and it's not just something I'm making up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain, And drinks, and gapes for Drink again;  The Plants suck in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain, And drinks, and gapes for Drink again;  The Plants suck in the Earth and are   With constant Drinking fresh and fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just happy to get a few balls over the net and let my partner run around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just happy to get a few balls over the net and let my partner run around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm old enough to know better, but still too young to care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm old enough to know better, but still too young to care.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest...The greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52425]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest...The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9722]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11941]]></link><description><![CDATA[About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had more chances tonight. The defense got the ball back for us all night, and we were able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had more chances tonight. The defense got the ball back for us all night, and we were able to make something happen with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Testament is an intensely personal document. It is not the effort of a group of men who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New Testament is an intensely personal document. It is not the effort of a group of men who are out to prove something to us by the force of their rational arguments. But it is the testimony, or testament, of a group of witnesses... who are bent on simply reporting to us the experience of a love that overtook them and overwhelmed them, a peace that passed all their understanding, and a peace that they in turn would pass on to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50705]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of these multinationals are going to have to call on their reserves to keep their earnings up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of these multinationals are going to have to call on their reserves to keep their earnings up in the face of the declining situation abroad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40724</guid></item></channel></rss>