<?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[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[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9773]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call this The World Is Yours, ... It costs $1 million. Other jewelers thought I was losing my mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36905]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call this The World Is Yours, ... It costs $1 million. Other jewelers thought I was losing my mind making it, that I'm going to get stuck with it. But already we have sold four of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22558]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was playing a little catch-up this spring and wasn't as sharp as we would have anticipated him to be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38081]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was playing a little catch-up this spring and wasn't as sharp as we would have anticipated him to be. He has quickly turned that around and really has played some great lacrosse in recent weeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are expecting them to go and visit their parole officers so that we can be informed of their presence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are expecting them to go and visit their parole officers so that we can be informed of their presence in a community. It's outrageous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14358]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined. [Lat., Equidem aeterna constitutione crediderim nexuque causarum atentium et multo ante destinatarum suum quemque ordinem immutabili lege percurrere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She'll be in every episode. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37937]]></link><description><![CDATA[She'll be in every episode.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of substantial psychiatric problems are actually starting and are identifiable much earlier than we ever thought, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of substantial psychiatric problems are actually starting and are identifiable much earlier than we ever thought,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5222]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love builds bridges where there are none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love builds bridges where there are none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15809]]></link><description><![CDATA[The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53009]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/282]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't discuss anything anyway. Unless it appears on Patrick's official breakfast-time agenda. And that consists mainly of food. Minutes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28721]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't discuss anything anyway. Unless it appears on Patrick's official breakfast-time agenda. And that consists mainly of food. Minutes of the last meal and proposals for the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   Old truths must be constantly re-stated if they are not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   Old truths must be constantly re-stated if they are not to be forgotten. To Homer, the dawn was "rosy-fingered"; to Shakespeare, it was "in russet mantle clad"; to Housman, "the ship of sunrise burning". The scientist can explain exactly why the sky looks as it does in the early morning, the physiologist why we perceive as we do. Yet no one suggests that there is no dawn at all, or that its appearance has changed over the centuries, or that any one of these percipients was mad or deceitful. Why should our knowledge of the Creator be less capable of variety and development than our knowledge of any aspect of Creation?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A taste for simplicity cannot last for long. -Eugene Delacroix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56356]]></link><description><![CDATA[A taste for simplicity cannot last for long. -Eugene Delacroix.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every marriage then is best in tune, When that the wife is May, the husband June. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26628]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every marriage then is best in tune, When that the wife is May, the husband June.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33887]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him laughing at things I didn't know the references to. There is an intimacy between Chicago writers and the population of this city that I find really wonderful. It's warm and it's welcoming. It's a little like going to a Baptist church. They know when to say 'Amen'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule of the road is a paradox quite, If you drive with a whip or a thong;  If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule of the road is a paradox quite, If you drive with a whip or a thong;  If you go to the left you are sure to be right,   If you go to the right you are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart,  And press a suit with passion,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart,  And press a suit with passion,   Is not a woman's part.    If man come not to gather     The roses where they stand,      They fade among their foliage,       They cannot seek his hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  Many a congregation when it assembles in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  Many a congregation when it assembles in church must look to the angels like a muddy, puddly shore at low tide; littered with every kind of rubbish and odds and ends --a distressing sort of spectacle. And then the tide of worship comes in, and it's all gone: the dead sea-urchins and jelly-fish, the paper and the empty cans and the nameless bits of rubbish. The cleansing sea flows over the whole lot. So we are released from a narrow, selfish outlook on the universe by a common act of worship. Our little human affairs are reduced to their proper proportion when seen over against the spaceless Majesty and Beauty of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841   The [Roman] imperial coinage (which was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841   The [Roman] imperial coinage (which was regularly used as a propaganda medium... is full of the characteristic motifs of Advent and Epiphany, celebrating the blessings which the manifestation of each successive divine emperor was to bring to a waiting world. Among the adulatory formulas with which the emperor was acclaimed, Prof. Ethelbert Stauffer mentions, as going back to the first century, "Hail, Victory, Lord of the earth, Invincible, Power, Glory, Honour, Peace, Security, Holy, Blessed, Unequalled, Great, Thou alone worthy art, Worthy is he to inherit the Kingdom, Come, come, do not delay, Come again" (p. 155) [in Christ and the Caesars]. Indeed, one has only to read Psalm lxxii, in Latin, in the official language of the empire, to see that it is largely the same formal language which is used alike in the Forum for the advent of the emperor, and in the catacombs for the celebration of the "Epiphany of Christ" (p. 251). Who was worthy to ascend the throne of the universe and direct the course of history? Caesar, or Jesus?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. [Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. [Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est enchainee.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27826]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47872]]></link><description><![CDATA[So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43802]]></link><description><![CDATA[How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves. [Ger., Man wird betrogen, man betrugt sich selbst.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves. [Ger., Man wird betrogen, man betrugt sich selbst.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7195]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6113]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As someone who has experienced the isolating effects of hearing loss first-hand, I felt compelled to help educate others and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30915]]></link><description><![CDATA[As someone who has experienced the isolating effects of hearing loss first-hand, I felt compelled to help educate others and encourage them to no longer suffer in silence and get help,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,  When both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58733]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,  When both the teacher and the taught are young,   As was the case, at least, where I have been;    They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong     They smile still more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20461]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again;  The moving mountains hear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56465]]></link><description><![CDATA[But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again;  The moving mountains hear the powerful call.   And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16091</guid></item></channel></rss>