<?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[Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more things change, the more they are the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more things change, the more they are the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is thrust upon us, and we must take it whether we will or not. Happiest is he who takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is thrust upon us, and we must take it whether we will or not. Happiest is he who takes it most completely and most joyfully, but also most seriously and with the deepest sense of its dangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live;  Ours is her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54044]]></link><description><![CDATA[O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live;  Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48654]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carve your name in hearts, not marble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carve your name in hearts, not marble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Answer me in one word. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Answer me in one word. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55169]]></link><description><![CDATA[People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is very fond of him and he still holds a candle for her. You could say that the calls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34824]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is very fond of him and he still holds a candle for her. You could say that the calls were of sexual nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8511]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and continuously sacred that it does not invite -- it excludes or repels -- the merely aesthetic approach. You can read it as literature only by a tour de force... It demands incessantly to be taken on its own terms: it will not continue to give literary delight very long, except to those who go to it for something quite different. I predict that it will in the future be read, as it always has been read, almost exclusively by Christians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57340]]></link><description><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our aspirations are our possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our aspirations are our possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always a highlight of the year for our kids. It's a fun time. The weather should be good Monday ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32151]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always a highlight of the year for our kids. It's a fun time. The weather should be good Monday through Thursday so the playing conditions should be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25289]]></link><description><![CDATA[They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many have an irresistible itch for writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many have an irresistible itch for writing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like Wagner's music much better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk the whole time without people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like Wagner's music much better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother who is really a mother is never free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27268]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother who is really a mother is never free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the powerof simplicity. We have a tendency it seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the powerof simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our livesand forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movementfor achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And asthe pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forgetthat we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going onoutside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45290]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns  Into a royal court with green ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns  Into a royal court with green festoons   The banks of dark lagoons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42537]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Finally, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Finally, what do we mean by the word "true"? How do we distinguish real Truth from human notions and ideas and opinions and doctrines? We are compelled to say that the word "true" means "grounded in reality, based on the real nature of things, on the basic facts which underlie the universe." Hence, if people say -- as many have said -- that the moral ideals set out in the gospels are high and noble ideals, and express admiration for the moral character of Jesus, and stop there, not daring to affirm more than that, the answer they are giving to the Question, "Is the Gospel true?", is No.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58039]]></link><description><![CDATA[As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If youcan't, go back to the factory or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22180]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If youcan't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse,  Without all hope of day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4340]]></link><description><![CDATA[O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse,  Without all hope of day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...we are apt to forget that the vast majority of men and women who fell under the totalitarian spell was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47257]]></link><description><![CDATA[...we are apt to forget that the vast majority of men and women who fell under the totalitarian spell was activated by unselfish motives, ready to accept the role of martyr or executioner, as the cause demanded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caution is the eldest child of wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caution is the eldest child of wisdom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65240]]></link><description><![CDATA[One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perish discretion when it interferes with duty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perish discretion when it interferes with duty]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots. [Fr., Une natione de singes a larynx de parroquets.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots. [Fr., Une natione de singes a larynx de parroquets.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66706]]></link><description><![CDATA[A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1327]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53682</guid></item></channel></rss>