<?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[Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make it mandatory: wherever they go, that dog must be with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36422]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make it mandatory: wherever they go, that dog must be with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Examine what is said, not him who speaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Examine what is said, not him who speaks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52523]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25787]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the young die good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the young die good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods only laugh when people ask them for money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods only laugh when people ask them for money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25579]]></link><description><![CDATA[That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If it be all for naught, for nothingness At last, why does God make the world so fair? Why spill this golden splendor out across The western hills, and light the silver lamp Of eve? Why give me eyes to see, and soul To love so strong and deep? Then, with a pang This brightness stabs me through, and wakes within Rebellious voice to cry against all death? Why set this hunger for eternity To gnaw my heartstrings through, if death ends all? If death ends all, then evil must be good, Wrong must be right, and beauty ugliness.  God is a Judas who betrays His Son, And with a kiss, damns all the world to hell, -- If Christ rose not again.   ... Unknown soldier, killed in World War I  August 9, 2002 Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 Concluding a short series of verse on Christ: With this ambiguous earth his dealings have been told us. These abide:    The signal to a maid, the human birth,    The lesson, and the young Man crucified. But not a star of all the innumerable host of stars has heard    How he administered this terrestrial ball.    Our race has kept their Lord's entrusted Word. Of his earth-visiting feet none knows the secret, cherished, perilous,    The terrible, shamefast, frightened, whispered, sweet,    Heart-shattering secret of his way with us. No planet knows that this, our wayside planet, carrying land and wave,    Love and life multiplied, and pain and bliss,    Bears, as its chief treasure, one forsaken grave. Nor, in our little day, may his devices with the heavens be guessed,    His pilgrimage to thread the Milky Way    Or his bestowal there be manifest. But in the eternities, doubtless we shall compare    Together, hear a million alien Gospels, in what guise    He trod the Pleiades, the Lyre, and the Bear. O, be prepared, my soul! To read the inconceivable, to scan    The million forms of God those stars unroll    When, in our turn, we show to them a Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we mixed up our defensive scheme a lot. That kind of caused some confusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we mixed up our defensive scheme a lot. That kind of caused some confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2855]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw you, I was afraid to meet you... When I met you, I was afraid to kiss you... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23855]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw you, I was afraid to meet you... When I met you, I was afraid to kiss you... When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you... Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44522]]></link><description><![CDATA[O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price for independence is often isolation and solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to miss him a lot. Other guys have to step up and do a great job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to miss him a lot. Other guys have to step up and do a great job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death cancels everything but truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death cancels everything but truth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the past decade, Afghanistan has been the principal source of international terrorism, religious extremism, international drug trafficking and organized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the past decade, Afghanistan has been the principal source of international terrorism, religious extremism, international drug trafficking and organized crime in this region,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All beings are beautiful seen through eyes of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25891]]></link><description><![CDATA[All beings are beautiful seen through eyes of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52276]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're happy to take monies to build this library in whatever form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35647]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're happy to take monies to build this library in whatever form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence is better then a rent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence is better then a rent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16311]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the Christian Trinity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the Christian Trinity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  He has loved us without being loved... We are bound to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  He has loved us without being loved... We are bound to Him, and not He to us, because before He was loved, He loved us... There it is, then: we cannot... love Him with this first love. Yet I say that God demands of us, that as He has loved us without any second thoughts, so He should be loved by us. In what way can we do this, then? ... I tell you, through a means which he has established, by which we can love Him freely; ... that is, we can be useful, not to Him -- which is impossible -- but to our neighbor... To show the love that we have for Him, we ought to serve and love every rational creature and extend our charity to good and bad -- as much to one who does us ill service and criticizes us as to one who serves us. For, His charity extends over just men and sinners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46814]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you so love the truth and the right that you welcome, or at least submit willingly to, the idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you so love the truth and the right that you welcome, or at least submit willingly to, the idea of an exposure of what in you is yet unknown to yourself -- an exposure that may redound to the glory of the truth by making you ashamed and humbled?... Are you willing to be made glad that you were wrong when you thought others were wrong?... We may trust God with our past as heartily as with our future. It will not hurt us so long as we do not try to hide things, so long as we are ready to bow our heads in hearty shame where it is fit that we should be ashamed. For to be ashamed is a holy and blessed thing. Shame is a thing to shame only those who want to appear, not those who want to be. Shame is to shame those who want to pass their examination, not those who would get into the heart of things... To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't have any attacks, it's easy to let the program slip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38966]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't have any attacks, it's easy to let the program slip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead us to worship God, filling our inner being with a fullness we would never have thought possible. Awe prepares the way in us for the power of God to transform us and this transformation of our inner attitudes can only take place when awe leads us in turn to wonder, admiration, reverence, surrender, and obedience toward God.  ... James Houston, The Transforming Power of Prayer July 23, 2000 Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Christ came, not so much to preach the Gospel, as that there might be a Gospel to preach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23440]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes the Super Bowl even more important than it has ever been. The Super Bowl is the only thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38625]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes the Super Bowl even more important than it has ever been. The Super Bowl is the only thing left that really reaches the mass audience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98 -Robert K. Greenleaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98 -Robert K. Greenleaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go too far is as bad as to fall short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22739]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go too far is as bad as to fall short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45757]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world's a stage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51232]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world's a stage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34437]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34437</guid></item></channel></rss>