<?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[Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28126]]></link><description><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27378]]></link><description><![CDATA[He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the earlier Methodist class meetings, members were expected every week to answer some extremely personal questions, such as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7633]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the earlier Methodist class meetings, members were expected every week to answer some extremely personal questions, such as the following: Have you experienced any particular temptations during the past week? How did you react or respond to those temptations ? Is there anything you are trying to keep secret, and, if so, what? At this point, the modern Christian swallows hard! We are often coated with a thick layer of reserve and modesty which covers "a multitude of sins" -- usually our own. Significantly, James 5:16-20, the original context of that phrase, is the passage which urges, "Confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it. [Fr., Un enfant en ouvrant ses yeux doit voir la patrie, et jusqu'a la mort ne voir qu'elle.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11819]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11819</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[Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50451]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63130]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, youhave to take care of them! There is great freedom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, youhave to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living.It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50177]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50177</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[For the stock to stabilize, investors have to get their hands on the seriousness of the regulatory issues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33124]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the stock to stabilize, investors have to get their hands on the seriousness of the regulatory issues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I worked for men," my Lord will say, When we meet at the end of the King's highway;  "I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11682]]></link><description><![CDATA["I worked for men," my Lord will say, When we meet at the end of the King's highway;  "I walked with the beggar along the road,   I kissed the bondsman stung by the goad,    I bore my half of the porter's load.     And what did you do," my Lord will say,      "As you traveled along the King's highway?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20784]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The town just turned into gridlock, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The town just turned into gridlock,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm only 45, you always think you have something to offer and with someone like Kevin Sheedy, you'd certainly look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35429]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm only 45, you always think you have something to offer and with someone like Kevin Sheedy, you'd certainly look at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890   It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26348]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32011]]></link><description><![CDATA[As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26456]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63024]]></link><description><![CDATA[No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54432]]></link><description><![CDATA[All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it would be a really good chance for us to get to know her and her to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33862]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it would be a really good chance for us to get to know her and her to get to know us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They turned a coal mine into a gold mine. People come from all over the world to see this mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35615]]></link><description><![CDATA[They turned a coal mine into a gold mine. People come from all over the world to see this mine from Sweden and England and all kinds of places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something must be allowed to custom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something must be allowed to custom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kind-of circled this week, because we had never beaten Arapahoe and never beaten Ranch, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kind-of circled this week, because we had never beaten Arapahoe and never beaten Ranch,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charisma, the celebrity, around John Paul was so strong that, in a way, the religious significance of the event ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charisma, the celebrity, around John Paul was so strong that, in a way, the religious significance of the event sort of fades from view. Benedict is obviously determined that is not going to happen. He's trying very hard to make sure the focus is on the ritual, not the person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,  Whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,  Whose weakness married to thy stronger state   Makes with me thy strength to communicate.    If aught possess thee from me, it is dross,     Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss;      Who all for want of pruning, with intrusion       Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have five times as many customers as we did three years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have five times as many customers as we did three years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61173]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11234]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since such uncultivated and rude simplicity inspires greater reverence for itself than any eloquence, what ought one to conclude except ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since such uncultivated and rude simplicity inspires greater reverence for itself than any eloquence, what ought one to conclude except that the force of Sacred Scripture is manifestly too powerful to need the art of words?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56864]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,  The past, the future, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14205]]></link><description><![CDATA[This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,  The past, the future, two eternities!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4009]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation for bad behavior].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46581</guid></item></channel></rss>