<?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[The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sound must seem an echo to the sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sound must seem an echo to the sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16150]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not received. It is achieved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not received. It is achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that heis at once the lover and the beloved. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22435]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that heis at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodiesis the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals fromwithin is his Beloved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love. What is love? No word can define it, it's something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love. What is love? No word can define it, it's something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859  [Christ] is the breathing forth of the heart, life and spirit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859  [Christ] is the breathing forth of the heart, life and spirit of God into all the dead race of Adam. He is the seeker, the finder, the restorer of all that, from Cain to the end of time, was lost and dead to the life of God. He is the love that prays for all its murderers; the love that willingly suffers and dies among thieves, that thieves may have a life with him in Paradise; the love that visits publicans, harlots and sinners, and wants and seeks to forgive where most is to be forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8482]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the abilityand determination to overcome bad luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the abilityand determination to overcome bad luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15435]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies;  I see the branches downward bent,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies;  I see the branches downward bent,   Like keys of some great instrument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945   And by 'knowledge' here [II Peter 1:2,5,8;2:20;3:18] is not to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945   And by 'knowledge' here [II Peter 1:2,5,8;2:20;3:18] is not to be understood a mere theoretical knowledge of the truths of Christianity, or the gnosis of the Gnostics; but a realization of these truths influencing the practice and leading to holiness of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52828]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thorne comes forth with the point forwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thorne comes forth with the point forwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  If it be the earnest desire and longing of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  If it be the earnest desire and longing of your heart to be merciful as He is merciful; to be full of His unwearied patience, to dwell in His unalterable meekness; if you long to be like Him in universal, impartial love; if you desire to communicate every good to every creature that you are able; if you love and practice everything that is good, righteous, and lovely for its own sake, because it is good, righteous, and lovely; and resist no evil but with goodness; then you have the utmost certainty that the Spirit of God dwells and governs in you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To disregard money, on suitable occasions, is often a great profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51750]]></link><description><![CDATA[To disregard money, on suitable occasions, is often a great profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth. [Lat., O quam cito transit gloria mundi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17548]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth. [Lat., O quam cito transit gloria mundi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45717]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under every stone lurks a politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under every stone lurks a politician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is just like a guy playing an instrument; it's something to look forward to the next day. When I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is just like a guy playing an instrument; it's something to look forward to the next day. When I was painting in Dixon, I was out of the place . . . and I made some money selling paintings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cricket is basically baseball on valium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cricket is basically baseball on valium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masters, spread yourselves. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Masters, spread yourselves. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59304]]></link><description><![CDATA[(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26368]]></link><description><![CDATA[March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31491]]></link><description><![CDATA[When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it ... for my loved ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried their talents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54020]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bank on getting those big runs. When we get rolling like that, it takes the wind out of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33044]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bank on getting those big runs. When we get rolling like that, it takes the wind out of the other team's sails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22573</guid></item></channel></rss>