<?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[What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent of the undertaking and the accomplishment of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23537]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent of the undertaking and the accomplishment of your wish? [Lat., Quid tam dextro pede concipis ut te conatus non poeniteat votique peracti?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever stop to ask what a yoke is really for? Is it to be a burden to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever stop to ask what a yoke is really for? Is it to be a burden to the animal which wears it? It is just the opposite: it is to make its burden light. Attached to the oxen in any other way than by a yoke, the plow would be intolerable; worked by means of a yoke, it is light. A yoke is not an instrument of torture; it is an instrument of mercy. It is not a malicious contrivance for making work hard; it is a gentle device to make hard labor light. [Christ] knew the difference between a smooth yoke and a rough one, a bad fit and a good one... The rough yoke galled, and the burden was heavy; the smooth yoke caused no pain, and the load was lightly drawn. The badly fitted harness was a misery; the well fitted collar was "easy". And what was the "burden"? It was not some special burden laid upon the Christian, some unique infliction that they alone must bear. It was what all men bear: it was simply life, human life itself, the general burden of life which all must carry with them from the cradle to the grave. Christ saw that men took life painfully. To some it was a weariness, to others failure, to many a tragedy, to all a struggle and a pain. How to carry this burden of life had been the whole world's problem. And here is Christ's solution: "Carry it as I do. Take life as I take it. Look at it from my point of view. Interpret it upon my principles. Take my yoke and learn of me, and you will find it easy. For my yoke is easy, sits right upon the shoulders, and therefore my burden is light.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a voice in the Universe urging us to remember our purpose for being on this great Earth. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64015]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a voice in the Universe urging us to remember our purpose for being on this great Earth. This is the voice of inspiration, which is within each and every one of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19446]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the database goes, so goes Oracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35287]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the database goes, so goes Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. [Lat., In rebus prosperis, superbiam, fastidium arrogantiamque magno opere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48483]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. [Lat., In rebus prosperis, superbiam, fastidium arrogantiamque magno opere fugiamus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21357]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24876]]></link><description><![CDATA[And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58476]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17676]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, his is a base and ignoble creature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, Madam, do you know there are upward of thirty yards of bowels squeezed underneath that girdle of your daughter's? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, Madam, do you know there are upward of thirty yards of bowels squeezed underneath that girdle of your daughter's? Go home and cut it; let Nature have fair play, and you will have no need of my advice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64564]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man's idea of a good sermon is one that goes over his head - and hits one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man's idea of a good sermon is one that goes over his head - and hits one of his neighbors]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree.  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree.  . . . .   Poems are made by fools like me,    But only God can make a tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46531]]></link><description><![CDATA[No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. - Spinster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not in the position where we need to sell anyone here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32831]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not in the position where we need to sell anyone here,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a waking dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a waking dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45205]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president will discuss Medicare and the new prescription drug care program. He's discussing the same issues in Arizona earlier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president will discuss Medicare and the new prescription drug care program. He's discussing the same issues in Arizona earlier that morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played even after falling behind, ... We started slow, and Dripping Springs had a server that served nine straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played even after falling behind, ... We started slow, and Dripping Springs had a server that served nine straight to start both games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been working so hard because we know it's his last year and the road he's going to through, there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28358]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been working so hard because we know it's his last year and the road he's going to through, there's a couple of guys, and we've been trying to watch some tape work on things and he came through. He wrestled his butt off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11081]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   We sometimes come to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   We sometimes come to God, not because we love Him best, but because we love our possessions best; we ask Christ to "save Western civilization", without asking ourselves whether it is entirely a civilization that Christ could want to save. We pray, too often, not to do God's will, but to enlist God's assistance in maintaining our "continually increasing consumption". And yet, though Christ promised that God would feed us, he never promised that God would stuff us to bursting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   I am quite prepared to promise the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   I am quite prepared to promise the secularists secular education if they on their side will promise not to have moral instruction. Secular education seems to me intellectually clean and comprehensible. Moral instruction seems to me unclean, intolerable; I would destroy it with fire. Teaching the Old Testament by itself means teaching ancient Hebrew ethics, which are simple, barbaric rudimentary, and, to a Christian, unsatisfying. Teaching moral instruction means teaching modern London, Birmingham and Boston ethics, which are not barbaric and rudimentary, but are corrupt, hysterical and crawling with worms, and which are to a Christian, not unsatisfying but detestable. The old Jew who says that you must fight only for your tribe is inadequate; but the modern prig who says you must never fight for anything is substantially and specifically immoral. I know quite well, of course, that the unreligious ethics suggested for modern schools do not verbally assert these things; they only talk about peaceful reform, true Christianity, and the importance of Count Tolstoy. It is all a matter of tone and implication--but then, so is all teaching. Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume that really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard,  In your rambles in valleys and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13300]]></link><description><![CDATA[But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard,  In your rambles in valleys and forests,   Repeating your ultimate word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26746]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53679]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All married women are not wives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61567]]></link><description><![CDATA[All married women are not wives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/237]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44029]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard for the young filmmaker not to envision immediate popularity, that being affected by the fact that his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15673]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard for the young filmmaker not to envision immediate popularity, that being affected by the fact that his work will unlikely be perceived entirely as he intended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice for the entombment of bones!Best to "Realize" the temporal nature of thingsand simply "Do and Die!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn, His God-like forehead by the mock crown torn,  A little bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn, His God-like forehead by the mock crown torn,  A little bird took from that crown one thorn.   To soothe the dear Redeemer's throbbing head,    That bird did what she could; His blood, 'tis said,     Down dropping, dyed her tender bosom red.      Since then no wanton boy disturbs her nest;       Weasel nor wild cat will her young molest;        All sacred deem the bird of ruddy breast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44150]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enemy of my enemy is my friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enemy of my enemy is my friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29555</guid></item></channel></rss>