<?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[A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47248]]></link><description><![CDATA[A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2094]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Raven and the SwanA raven saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Raven and the SwanA raven saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing that the Swan's splendid white color arose from his washing in the water in which he swam, the Raven left the altars in the neighborhood where he picked up his living, and took up residence in the lakes and pools. But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished. Change of habit cannot alter Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never crossed my mind that it would be Marla. I didn't want to push God it didn't have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31177]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never crossed my mind that it would be Marla. I didn't want to push God it didn't have to be her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't give them extra outs. We're not going to score enough runs, where we can give a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32142]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't give them extra outs. We're not going to score enough runs, where we can give a lot of extra outs, meaning errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9759]]></link><description><![CDATA[During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10666]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52892]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8853]]></link><description><![CDATA[For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32311]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art. [Lat., Aegri quia non omnes convalescunt, idcirco ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art. [Lat., Aegri quia non omnes convalescunt, idcirco ars nulla medicina est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just broke their backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36077]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just broke their backs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9089]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1469]]></link><description><![CDATA[When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon our souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that stand high have many blasts to shake them, And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51510]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that stand high have many blasts to shake them, And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14018]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of thinking independently together ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of thinking independently together]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody seems to be talking about security. It's a non-issue at the moment. I'm shocked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody seems to be talking about security. It's a non-issue at the moment. I'm shocked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59750]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4498]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if all the myths were true... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43609]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if all the myths were true...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not pleading with the Father, but expressing the Father's good pleasure is the key-note of true intercession. Forgiveness is God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not pleading with the Father, but expressing the Father's good pleasure is the key-note of true intercession. Forgiveness is God's idea, God's desire; and it is He who appoints both the Judge and the Counsel for the Defense. It was He who inaugurated the priestly work, that men might receive His cleansing and turn to the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. God has provided for himself a Lamb. It is He who sends His Son to be our Elder Brother, and to incorporate us as adopted sons into the circle of His Fatherly love. So then it is the voice of His beloved Son which is most clearly heard by the Father in heaven. In that voice of intercession, all the voices of intercession are contained and heard. The Son is talking to the Father about us, and what He says is not Please but Yes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100   What exactly has Christ done for you? What is there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100   What exactly has Christ done for you? What is there in your life that needs Christ to explain it, and that, apart from Him, simply could not have been there at all? If there is nothing, then your religion is a sheer futility. But then that is your fault, not Jesus Christ's. For, when we open the New Testament, it is to come upon whole companies of excited people, their faces all aglow, their hearts dazed and bewildered by the immensity of their own good fortune. Apparently they find it difficult to think of anything but this amazing happening that has befallen them; quite certainly they cannot keep from laying almost violent hands on every chance passer-by, and pouring out yet once again the whole astounding story. And always, as we listen, they keep throwing up their hands as if in sheer despair, telling us it is hopeless, that it breaks through language, that it won't describe, that until a man has known Christ for himself he can have no idea of the enormous difference He makes. It is as when a woman gives a man her heart; or when a little one is born to very you; or when, after long lean years of pain and greyness, health comes back. You cannot really describe that; you cannot put it into words, not adequately. Only, the whole world is different, and life gloriously new. Well, it is like that, they say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or will you think, my friend, your bus'ness done When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or will you think, my friend, your bus'ness done When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49415]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44434]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in his greatness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59954]]></link><description><![CDATA[A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the power to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the power to do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38838]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12313]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing is the surroundings. You're in the middle of the forest and you have a river flowing next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing is the surroundings. You're in the middle of the forest and you have a river flowing next to the hot springs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must go back to nature for information. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must go back to nature for information.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist  In several striking cases of conversion I have studied, those in need were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist  In several striking cases of conversion I have studied, those in need were inspired and affected, not merely by the kindness of an individual... but by the love and sympathy of the Church as a whole... Examples could be multiplied. This type of service is a great witness to the reality of Christian life and faith; but it presupposes a spirit of fellowship within the Church, a spirit which is all too rare. It means that there is mutual respect and trust between the minister and the members of his Church; and a spirit of fellowship which is outward-looking and which issues in service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20919]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but --a hatred of all injury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221  Verily, if thou desirest to have the Creator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221  Verily, if thou desirest to have the Creator of all creatures, thou must renounce all creatures; for it cannot be otherwise, but only insomuch as thy soul is emptied and bared; the less of the creature, the more of God: this is but a fair bargain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were a little bummed the rest of that night. We kind of didn't know what to say. It's like, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were a little bummed the rest of that night. We kind of didn't know what to say. It's like, why Utah? Why does that always have to happen to us against them? But we kept our heads high, knowing we had the NCAA Tournament to look forward to. We realize that we're not done and we have a chance to play at least one game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But for those on the right, ... McCarthy fought the good fight. He was courageous when others wouldn't do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35126]]></link><description><![CDATA[But for those on the right, ... McCarthy fought the good fight. He was courageous when others wouldn't do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35126</guid></item></channel></rss>