<?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[Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392  The characteristic of our modern Christianity, which correlates it with all apostolic times, is the substitution of loyalty to a person in place of belief in doctrines, as the essence and test of Christian life. This is the simplicity and unity by which the Gospel can become effective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60350]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of one book. [Lat., Homo unius libri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4527]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of one book. [Lat., Homo unius libri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34767]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own:  He who, secure within, can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own:  He who, secure within, can say,   Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you hold it up, you can see right through it. It doesn't smell because it doesn't retain water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32091]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you hold it up, you can see right through it. It doesn't smell because it doesn't retain water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've played with a lot of these guys. They know I've had my struggles over there. They say if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've played with a lot of these guys. They know I've had my struggles over there. They say if you keep pushing forward, working hard, plays like that are the reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the newspapers have their own conflict of interest because they are protected by the businessmen, businessmen that Berlusconi has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41120]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the newspapers have their own conflict of interest because they are protected by the businessmen, businessmen that Berlusconi has not been able to dominate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54174]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26028]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65236]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We voted for the one who can make a change, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28535]]></link><description><![CDATA[We voted for the one who can make a change,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65488]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I think [my husband] is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think [my husband] is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24194]]></link><description><![CDATA[That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17260]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All soils are not fertile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48826]]></link><description><![CDATA[All soils are not fertile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58547]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou' o' brandy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12993]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou' o' brandy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am delighted that we have found money for the refurbishment of many of our leisure facilities, including Wyndley Swimming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am delighted that we have found money for the refurbishment of many of our leisure facilities, including Wyndley Swimming Pool, one of the busiest in the region.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men of faith might claim for their positions ancient tradition, practical usefulness, and spiritual desirability, but one query could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men of faith might claim for their positions ancient tradition, practical usefulness, and spiritual desirability, but one query could prick all such bubbles: Is it scientific? That question has searched religion for contraband goods, stripped it of old superstitions, forced it to change its categories of thought and methods of work, and in general has so cowed and scared religion that many modern-minded believers... instinctively throw up their hands at the mere whisper of it... When a prominent scientist comes out strongly for religion, all the churches thank Heaven and take courage, as though it were the highest possible compliment to God to have Eddington believe in Him. Science has become the arbiter of this generation's thought, until to call even a prophet and a seer 'scientific' is to cap the climax of praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  To think of the Communists as the executors of God's judgment should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  To think of the Communists as the executors of God's judgment should not strike us as strange if we have read our Bibles. The same study should free us from the assumption that God will always be on our side whatever we do, will always protect His Church from temporal evil; or that He is only concerned with the faithful believers. It was precisely His concern for the wicked Ninevites that so distressed the prophet Jonah.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53170]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19834]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimski; for he driveth furiously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave,  This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave,  This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found,   Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23389]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain,  Subdues the rage of poison, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain,  Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11303]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10117]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew (Orr was fast). But I didn't know he was that fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew (Orr was fast). But I didn't know he was that fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25068]]></link><description><![CDATA[A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36436]]></link><description><![CDATA[For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36436</guid></item></channel></rss>