<?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[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16014]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52147]]></link><description><![CDATA[No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52121]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59110]]></link><description><![CDATA[In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis good-will makes intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22880]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis good-will makes intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of evening tinct, The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of evening tinct, The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I court not the votes of the fickle mob. [Lat., Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I court not the votes of the fickle mob. [Lat., Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61006</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[Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee!  I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.   Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible    To feeling as to sight? or art thou but     A dagger of the mind, a false creation      Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?       I see thee yet, in form as palpable        As this which now I draw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would place economic restrictions on the property owners themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would place economic restrictions on the property owners themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66047]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   After Calvary, God has the right to be trusted; to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   After Calvary, God has the right to be trusted; to be believed that He means what He says; and that His love is dependable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first years of man must make provision for the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first years of man must make provision for the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true, it's our responsibility because we are the only ones here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true, it's our responsibility because we are the only ones here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the essence of innumerable Biographies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19319]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63634]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mark my hours by shadow; Mayest thou mark thine  By sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mark my hours by shadow; Mayest thou mark thine  By sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog. [Lat., Plus on apprend a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog. [Lat., Plus on apprend a connaltre l'homme, plus on apprend a estimer le chien.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When mistrust comes in, love goes out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42850]]></link><description><![CDATA[When mistrust comes in, love goes out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2761]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the best,   With silken coats and caps and golden rings,    With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things;     With scarfs and fans and double change of brav'ry,      With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav'ry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom they have injured, they also hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom they have injured, they also hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year. The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year. The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all I can say, or the writers will kill me. They know where I live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42543]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird and lonely guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They booked credits from multiple suppliers, with cash tied to future business. It might be perceived as another piece of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39181]]></link><description><![CDATA[They booked credits from multiple suppliers, with cash tied to future business. It might be perceived as another piece of bad news. But it's not a big issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she eagerly sought she soon tires of and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50189]]></link><description><![CDATA[As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she eagerly sought she soon tires of and discards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roche is providing innovation. I could not care less about the hundreds of anti high-blood pressure products. This drug looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roche is providing innovation. I could not care less about the hundreds of anti high-blood pressure products. This drug looks like it will literally give women a new lease of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission; he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice in Britain today, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice in Britain today,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget those things that aren't worth remembering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51649]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.   - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater"),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639   The two great features of Protestant theology are its doctrines of justification by faith and the law as the rule of life. This is a synthesis of New Testament grace and Old Testament ethics. With this synthesis, Protestants have solved the problem of finding a gracious God, but they have not solved the problem of finding gracious neighbors. They can fellowship with God because he is gracious; but they find it difficult to fellowship with one another, because they are not so gracious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was once thought can never be unthought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/938]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was once thought can never be unthought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For those folks in town, this is a good environment with some good soccer to watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41724]]></link><description><![CDATA[For those folks in town, this is a good environment with some good soccer to watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41724</guid></item></channel></rss>