<?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[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over his patient, then and not till then to send for the minister, not so much to inquire into the man's condition and to give him suitable advice as to minister comfort and to speak peace to him at a venture. But let me tell you that herein you put an extremely difficult task upon us, in expecting that we should pour wine and oil into the wound before it be searched, and speak smooth and comfortable things to a man that is but just brought to a sense of the long course of a lewd and wicked life impenitently continued in. Alas! what comfort can we give to men in such a case? We are loth to drive them to despair; and yet we must not destroy them by presumption; pity and good nature do strongly tempt us to make the best of their case and to give them all the little hopes which with any kind of reason we can --and God knows it is but very little that we can give to such persons upon good ground, for it all depends upon the degree and sincerity of their repentance, which God only knows, and we can but guess at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that riseth first, is first drest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that riseth first, is first drest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58396]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26775]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jobling, there are chords in the human mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to believe in yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64113]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to believe in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  If God said, "I forgive you," to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  If God said, "I forgive you," to a man who hated his brother, and if (as is impossible) that voice of forgiveness should reach the man, what would it mean to him? How would the man interpret it? Would it not mean to him, "You may go on hating. I do not mind it. You have had great provocation, and are justified in your hate?" No doubt God takes what wrong there is, and what provocation there is, into the account; but the more provocation, the more excuse that can be urged for the hate, the more reason, if possible, that the hater should be delivered from the hell of his hate, that God's child should be made the loving child that He meant him to be. The man would think, not that God loved the sinner, but that He forgave the sin, which God never does. Every sin meets its due fate -- inexorable expulsion from the paradise of God's Humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate thatprogress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate thatprogress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward yourgoals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem. . . Problems are like landmarks of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21082</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/7169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, andevermore he takes the Tool of Thought, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, andevermore he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, bringsforth a thousand joys, a thousand ills-He thinks in secret and it comes topass; Environment is but his looking-glass. As A Man Thinketh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26286]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  It might help us in our thinking if we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  It might help us in our thinking if we drew a distinction between preaching, which the New Testament talks about as a continuing activity in society at large, and sermonising, which we have made into a special activity in the church premises... A great many people sermonising in our churches today would be better off and of greater service if they absolved themselves from the bondage and disciplines of the pulpit and came down among their congregations, teaching informally on sounder educational principles. After all, the vital matter in the ministry of the Word is not that a clergyman delivers himself of a discourse but that the people to whom he ministers end up being taught something. The tragedy is that the professional clergy have been trained to sermonise and they seem overwhelmed with fears and a sense of insecurity when they contemplate other methods. A further problem, of course, is that most of our churches contain a significant number of people who become emotionally disturbed at any departure from what they have always done in the past. To them, the sermon is part of their Christianity -- even if it bores them stiff!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[life is the most common disease transmissible through sex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66830]]></link><description><![CDATA[life is the most common disease transmissible through sex]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the dreams, Children of night, of indigestion bred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the dreams, Children of night, of indigestion bred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14953]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43364]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their workaday lives but to gain an education, to see the world, to learn table manners and interior decoration, how to dress, kiss, to laugh and cry, how to react to tragedy and happiness, how to be brave, evil and good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dry feet, warme head, bring safe to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dry feet, warme head, bring safe to bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any training that does not include the emotions, mind and body is incomplete; knowledge fades without feeling. -Anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any training that does not include the emotions, mind and body is incomplete; knowledge fades without feeling. -Anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Allen has often been compared over the course of his career, dating back to his term as governor, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35089]]></link><description><![CDATA[George Allen has often been compared over the course of his career, dating back to his term as governor, to Ronald Reagan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25733]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind: So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung  With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19889]]></link><description><![CDATA[My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind: So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung  With ears that sweep away the morning dew;   Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls;    Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells,     Each under each.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  Gladly shall I come whenever bodily strength will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  Gladly shall I come whenever bodily strength will allow to join my testimony with yours in Olney pulpit, that God is love. As yet I have not recovered from the fatigues of my American expedition. My shattered bark is scarce worth docking any more. But I would fain wear, not rust, out. Oh! my dear Mr. Newton, indeed and indeed I am ashamed that I have done and suffered so little for Him that hath done and suffered so much for ill and hell-deserving me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even one year is still excessive. In most employment contracts, trial periods are from one to six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even one year is still excessive. In most employment contracts, trial periods are from one to six months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blushing is the color of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blushing is the color of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just hope if any of those folks are illegal that they realize there are millions that immigrate properly and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just hope if any of those folks are illegal that they realize there are millions that immigrate properly and legally and they don't have to protest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48147]]></link><description><![CDATA[No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She really did her homework on this one and read the analysts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36570]]></link><description><![CDATA[She really did her homework on this one and read the analysts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, hangs silent on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43057]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19640]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48159]]></link><description><![CDATA[My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday Beginning a short series on forgiveness:   Turn your eyes full upon yourselves, and see if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday Beginning a short series on forgiveness:   Turn your eyes full upon yourselves, and see if you cannot discover the same fault [that you would judge in another] in yourselves, either in times past or now-a-days. And, if you find it, remember how that it is God's appointing that you shall now behold this sin in another, in order that you may be brought to acknowledge and repent of it; and amend your ways and pray for your brother, that God may grant him repentance and amendment according to His Divine Will. Thus a good heart draws amendment from the sins of others, and is guarded from all harsh judgment and wrath, and preserves an even temper; while an evil heart puts the worst interpretation on all that it sees, and turns it to its own hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25293]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desiring things widely different for their various tastes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For five years I worked at the [Commerce Department] and did econometric modeling, and you could never get these numbers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40739]]></link><description><![CDATA[For five years I worked at the [Commerce Department] and did econometric modeling, and you could never get these numbers to load into consumption numbers. They're not leading indicators or coincident indicators. They don't tell you a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had some bad turnovers and created some easy opportunities for them. The biggest thing in the fourth quarter is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had some bad turnovers and created some easy opportunities for them. The biggest thing in the fourth quarter is we gave up way too many offensive rebounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54782]]></link><description><![CDATA[My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54782</guid></item></channel></rss>