<?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[Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary   If you were to rise early every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary   If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour all men. Love the brotherhood, Fear God. Honour the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour all men. Love the brotherhood, Fear God. Honour the king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications, ... It [the U.K. ruling] is a nice psychological ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications, ... It [the U.K. ruling] is a nice psychological boost but you can't extrapolate the U.S. ruling from this because of the different legal standards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. [Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. [Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942   There is a great difference between a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942   There is a great difference between a lofty spirit and a right spirit. A lofty spirit excites admiration by its profoundness; but only a right spirit achieves salvation and happiness by its stability and integrity. Do not conform your ideas to those of the world. Scorn the "intellectual" as much as the world esteems it. What men consider intellectual is a certain facility to produce brilliant thoughts. Nothing is more vain. We make an idol of our intellect as a woman who believes herself beautiful worships her face. We take pride in our own thoughts. We must reject not only human cleverness, but also human prudence, which seems so important and so profitable. Then we may enter -- like little children, with candor and innocence of worldly ways -- into the simplicity of faith; and with humility and a horror of sin we may enter into the holy passion of the cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. [Fr., Les Anglais, nation trop fiere  S'arrogent l'empire des mers;   Les Francais, nation legere,    S'emparent de celui des airs.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might,  With magic might, my own sweet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12874]]></link><description><![CDATA[In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might,  With magic might, my own sweet love,   Into my little room above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew the way (the Cougars) played they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28363]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew the way (the Cougars) played they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept battling. We never lost our confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago  On a throne of rocks, in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago  On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,   With a diadem of snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17398]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long dispute means both parties are wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52690]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long dispute means both parties are wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25534]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arrow will not always find the mark intended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arrow will not always find the mark intended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their wants but few, their wishes all confin'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their wants but few, their wishes all confin'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47992]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...democracy can be interpreted to assert not only equality before the law but also essentialistic identity in all respects. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47578]]></link><description><![CDATA[...democracy can be interpreted to assert not only equality before the law but also essentialistic identity in all respects. This is expressed in the claim, "All men are created equal," which is something very different from the statement, "All men have equal rights and are equal before the law." Anyone who believes in the genetic uniqueness of every individual thereby believes in the conclusion, "No two individuals are created equal.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Impossible DreamTo dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foeTo bear the unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Impossible DreamTo dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foeTo bear the unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave dare not goTo write the unwritable wrongTo be better far than you areTo try when your arms are too wearyThe reach the unreachable starThis is my quest, to follow that starNo matter how hopeless,No matter how farTo fight for the rightWhithout question or pauseTo be willing to march into hellFor a heavenly causeAnd I know if I'll only be trueTo this glorious questThat my heart will be peaceful and calmWhen I'm laid to my restAnd the world would be better for thisThat one man scorned and covered with scarsStill strove with his last ounce of courageTo reach the unreachable starmusic by Leigh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we can win eight of our next ten games. We can do this because I see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we can win eight of our next ten games. We can do this because I see the bats coming alive. Its going to be like a light switch for the team producing runs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/221]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens in Iowa makes more difference than it ever has before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40346]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens in Iowa makes more difference than it ever has before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50920]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26223]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't understand why they were waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40834]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't understand why they were waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned. [Fr., Vous semblez les anguilles de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10494]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned. [Fr., Vous semblez les anguilles de Melun; vous criez devant qu'on vous esorche.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every reform needs examples more than advocates ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every reform needs examples more than advocates]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5690]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may fortune thou wilt say, "I am content to do the best for my neighbor that I can, saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may fortune thou wilt say, "I am content to do the best for my neighbor that I can, saving myself harmless." I promise thee, Christ will not hear their excuse; for He himself suffered harm for our sakes, and for our salvation was put to extreme death. I wis, if it had pleased Him, He might have saved us and never felt pain; but in suffering pains and death He did give us example, and teach us how we should do one for another, as He did for us all; for, as He saith himself, "he that will be mine, let him deny himself, and follow me, in bearing my cross and suffering my pains." Wherefore we must needs suffer pain with Christ to do our neighbor good, as well with the body and all his members, as with heart and mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To affirm is to make firm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21474]]></link><description><![CDATA[To affirm is to make firm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in.Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in.Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when you are compelled to withdraw your conscious attention in order to engage in earthly affairs, there is within you a secret communion always going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here, here, and everywhere, he leaves and takes, Dexterity so obeying appetite  That what he will he does, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here, here, and everywhere, he leaves and takes, Dexterity so obeying appetite  That what he will he does, and does so much   That proof is called impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61607</guid></item></channel></rss>