<?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[Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East or Asia, laws and medical care are very different. We strive to make sure that travelers have the same information we as diplomats have. Americans and Western interests are targets, and Americans should be aware of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just want to be steady. Play consistent defense, swing consistent and give ourselves a chance to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38205]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just want to be steady. Play consistent defense, swing consistent and give ourselves a chance to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No day is wholly unproductive of good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50145]]></link><description><![CDATA[No day is wholly unproductive of good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press was doing its job, and in doing its job, they saw this clash between what they were witnessing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press was doing its job, and in doing its job, they saw this clash between what they were witnessing with their own eyes and what officials were telling them,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.   - Ralph Waldo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one word in America that says it all, and that word is, 'You never know.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57668]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one word in America that says it all, and that word is, 'You never know.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23608]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  First in a series on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  First in a series on God and the human condition:  Suffering is sometimes a mystery. We must affirm both the mystery and God. The paradox remained, but now, at least, Job knew that it belonged there -- that it is built into the moral and physical orders, and into the very nature of God as He has permitted us humans to perceive Him. In a world where the universal principle is cause/effect, the book of Job reminds us that the principle is a reflection of the mysterious, self-revealing God. It is subsumed under Him, however, and He cannot be subsumed under it. The God-speeches remind us that a Person, not a principle, is Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. - On the request that he accept the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46988]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. - On the request that he accept the Republican presidential nomination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could live a week on one good compliment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17211]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could live a week on one good compliment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just unreal. I get 53 miles per gallon and it still hurts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just unreal. I get 53 miles per gallon and it still hurts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a way-if you're committed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21329]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a way-if you're committed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24922]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like jelly beans, and sometimes you get your favorite color. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like jelly beans, and sometimes you get your favorite color.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1272]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The players are looking forward to it because they'd like revenge, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The players are looking forward to it because they'd like revenge,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms like a malcontent, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms like a malcontent, to relish a love-song like a robin-redbreast, to walk alone like one that had the pestilence, to sigh like a schoolboy that had lost his A B C, to weep like a young wench that had buried her grandam, to fast like one that takes diet, to watch like one that fears robbing, to speak puling like a beggar at Hallowmas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43837]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man, at the bottom of his heart, wants to do right. But only he can do right who knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man, at the bottom of his heart, wants to do right. But only he can do right who knows right; only he knows right who thinks right; only he thinks right who believes right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  The philosopher [Immanuel] Kant was right long ago to notice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  The philosopher [Immanuel] Kant was right long ago to notice that moral activity implies a religious dimension. The atheist [Friedrich] Nietzsche also saw the point and argued forcefully that the person who gives up belief in God must be consistent and give up Christian morals as well, because the former is the foundation of the latter. He had nothing but contempt for fellow humanists who refused to see that Christian morality cannot survive the loss of its theological moorings, except as habit or as lifeless tradition. As Ayn Rand also sees so clearly, love of the neighbor cannot be rationally justified within the framework of secular humanism. Love for one's neighbor is an ethical implication of the Christian position. This suggests to me that the world's deepest problem is not economic or technological, but spiritual and moral. What is missing is the vision of reality that can sustain the neighbor-oriented life style that is so urgently needed in our world today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8845]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fault of the horse is put on the saddle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more:  Too common! Never morning wore  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25587]]></link><description><![CDATA[That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more:  Too common! Never morning wore   To evening, but some heart did break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46491]]></link><description><![CDATA[This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a trial of which you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20347]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a trial of which you can have no conception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39618]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we didn't really want to push the fund-raising side of the event and wanted to present it more as a way to relieve stress. Walking is good for the heart and a great way to relieve stress, which everyone needs these days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one knows what Falls Church retail is today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36384]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one knows what Falls Church retail is today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You betray your own failing if you cannot bear with the fault of a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51647]]></link><description><![CDATA[You betray your own failing if you cannot bear with the fault of a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62724]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it\'s important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66658]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it\'s important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are keen to get our photograph on the wall. It will be there forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37013]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are keen to get our photograph on the wall. It will be there forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)   Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)   Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[sends out a message both to critics and to supporters that he has the backing of America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28563]]></link><description><![CDATA[sends out a message both to critics and to supporters that he has the backing of America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397  Moreover, you are not to ask what each man's desserts are. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397  Moreover, you are not to ask what each man's desserts are. Mercy is not ordinarily held to consist in pronouncing judgment on another man's deserts, but in relieving his necessities; in giving aid to the poor, not in inquiring how good they are.  .. St. Ambrose    December 8, 1997  There is a manifest want of spiritual influence on the ministry of the present day. I feel it in my own case and I see it in that of others. I am afraid there is too much of a low, managing, contriving, maneuvering temper of mind among us. We are laying ourselves out more than is expedient to meet one man's taste and another man's prejudices. The ministry is a grand and holy affair, and it should find in us a simple habit of spirit and a holy but humble indifference to all consequences. A leading defect in Christian ministers is want of a devotional habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36775]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18774]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604  All that which our blessed Saviour wrought in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604  All that which our blessed Saviour wrought in his mortal body, he did it for our example and instruction, to the end that, following his steps, according to our poor ability, we might without offense pass over this present life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  It takes a determined effort of the mind to break free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  It takes a determined effort of the mind to break free from the error of making books an end in themselves. The worst thing a book can do for a Christian is to leave him with the impression that he has received from it anything really good; the best it can do is to point the way to the Good he is seeking. The function of a good book is to stand like a signpost directing the reader toward the Truth and the Life. That book serves best which early makes itself unnecessary, just as a signpost serves best after it is forgotten, after the traveler has arrived safely at his desired haven. The work of a good book is to incite the reader to moral action, to turn his eves toward God and urge him forward. Beyond that it cannot go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25787]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Akaka said yesterday the future of Hawaiian programs could hinge on whether the bill is successful.] When that happens, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32562]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Akaka said yesterday the future of Hawaiian programs could hinge on whether the bill is successful.] When that happens, the courts I think will view these cases differently, ... But it will be in the hands of the courts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was good to see Tara and Anya step up and close that out, because it could have gone either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38647]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was good to see Tara and Anya step up and close that out, because it could have gone either way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60464]]></link><description><![CDATA[To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60464</guid></item></channel></rss>