<?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[Coach shows me spots where I disappear, where I'm too passive. If I don't want the ball, if I'm not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach shows me spots where I disappear, where I'm too passive. If I don't want the ball, if I'm not aggressive, I'm out there for no reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threaten the oppressed and be prepared to face their onslaught, abuse them and be prepared for an even greater threat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Threaten the oppressed and be prepared to face their onslaught, abuse them and be prepared for an even greater threat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61468]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even get an allowance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15849]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even get an allowance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there's a lot of passion with these people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there's a lot of passion with these people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942    A man's physical hunger does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942    A man's physical hunger does not prove that that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man's hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will. A man may love a woman and not win her; but it would be very odd if the phenomenon called `falling in love" occurred in a sexless world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64520]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5937]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  In this Body of Christ, Paul sees "the ecclesia of God". Ecclesia is a Greek word with a splendid history. It was used in the old free commonwealths of Greece for the general assembly of all free citizens, by which their common life was governed. When political liberty went, the name still survived in the restricted municipal self-government which the Roman State allowed. It was taken over by the brotherhoods and guilds which in some measure superseded the old political associations. Among the Jews who spoke Greek, this word seemed the appropriate one to describe the commonwealth of Israel as ruled by God -- the historical Theocracy. Our translation of it is "Church". That word, however, has undergone such transformations of meaning that it is often doubtful in what sense it is being used. Perhaps for ecclesia we may use the word -- simpler, more general, and certainly nearest to its original meaning -- "commonwealth". [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Castles are Forrests of stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Castles are Forrests of stones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Bond, a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels,a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/759]]></link><description><![CDATA[James Bond, a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels,a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass!  Spring up like Summer grass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61133]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass!  Spring up like Summer grass,   Surge at her, mass on mass,    Still shall you break like glass,     Splinter and break like shivered glass,      But pass?       You shall not pass!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.  .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am from Massachusetts, The land of the sacred cod,  There the Adamses snub the Abootts   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am from Massachusetts, The land of the sacred cod,  There the Adamses snub the Abootts   And the Cabots walk with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would have been wording such as 'the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' - July 27, 1992Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low  As high he soar'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2335]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low  As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last   To basest things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: "You must, if " and the "if" stands for man's choice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61048]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be unconscionable for the Brattleboro Select Board to approve the evacuation plan without including these improvements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be unconscionable for the Brattleboro Select Board to approve the evacuation plan without including these improvements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there are some people where it's working fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29437]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there are some people where it's working fine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what he chooses to do with his life, not by what happens to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66518]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51874]]></link><description><![CDATA[A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Customers will have an easier time paying smaller monthly bills, so we will expect to see fewer cases of customers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Customers will have an easier time paying smaller monthly bills, so we will expect to see fewer cases of customers walking away without paying a final bill because it is just too high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're talking to a lot of major groups that may not have considered us in the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're talking to a lot of major groups that may not have considered us in the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955  What doth it profit thee to enter into deep discussions concerning the Holy Trinity, if thou lack humility, and be thus displeasing to the Trinity? For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright; it is a good life which maketh a man dear to God. I had rather feel contrition than be skillful in the definition thereof. If thou knewest the whole Bible, and the sayings of all the philosophers, what should this profit thee without the love and grace of God?  ...Thomas à Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ April 11, 1996 Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  When an unskillful servant gathers many herbs, flowers, and seeds in a garden, you gather them out that are useful, and cast the rest out of sight; so Christ deals with our performances. All the ingredients of self that are in them He takes away, and adds incense to what remains, and presents it to God. This is the cause that the saints at the last day, when they meet their own duties and performances, know them not, they are so changed from what they were when they went out of their hand. "Lord, when saw we Thee naked or hungry?" So God accepts a little, and Christ makes our little a great deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is not a time of waste ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is not a time of waste]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13766]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he does have that potential to be a good enough player on a team that's trying to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36117]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he does have that potential to be a good enough player on a team that's trying to get to the next level. Even if he is, realistically, he's not going to be there in the next year. It's going to take a couple years for him to develop into that. Garnett, as great as he is, is still going to take a lot of shots on the perimeter. The point guard is even more critical on a team without a dominant post presence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36117</guid></item></channel></rss>