<?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[If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace--that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government--for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable--in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22799]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpoise, how he bounced and tumbled? They say they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpoise, how he bounced and tumbled? They say they're half fish, half flesh. A plague on them! They ne'er come but I look to be washed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15858]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Declare World Party I ! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Declare World Party I !]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30585]]></link><description><![CDATA[When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As much grief as I take the rest of the year, plays like that, you've got to savor them and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35266]]></link><description><![CDATA[As much grief as I take the rest of the year, plays like that, you've got to savor them and enjoy them. I've helped the team win with the bat before, but it's nice to do it with the glove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By this I mean that a political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16450]]></link><description><![CDATA[By this I mean that a political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58677]]></link><description><![CDATA[To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A merry monarch, scandalous and poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54530]]></link><description><![CDATA[A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60188]]></link><description><![CDATA[A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62107]]></link><description><![CDATA["Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't put equipment on your gravestone.*Ian Stewart's father about the risks he was taking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/670]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't put equipment on your gravestone.*Ian Stewart's father about the risks he was taking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am unable to see how a man can find the hand of God in secular history unless he has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6322]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am unable to see how a man can find the hand of God in secular history unless he has first found an assurance of it in his personal experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of the secret, supernatural communications, the light and call of God. That is why spiritual books bear such different meanings for different types and qualities of soul, why each time we read them they give us something fresh, as we can bear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wondrous is this great, blue ship that sails around the mighty sun and joy to everyone that rides along. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wondrous is this great, blue ship that sails around the mighty sun and joy to everyone that rides along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is atragedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is atragedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897 To live of love, it is to know no fear;  No memory of past faults can I recall; No imprint of my sins remaineth here;  The fire of Love divine effaces all. O sacred flames! O furnace of delight!  I sing my safe sweet happiness to prove. In these mild fires I dwell by day, by night.  I live of love!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47913]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common good comes before the private good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47249]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common good comes before the private good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is he scoring, he's also become very important for the team. And I think he can even still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is he scoring, he's also become very important for the team. And I think he can even still improve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24614]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old-Testament doctrine of salvation gives us no encouragement, on strictly hermeneutical grounds, to argue from what was true politically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old-Testament doctrine of salvation gives us no encouragement, on strictly hermeneutical grounds, to argue from what was true politically of Israel to what could or should be true of any modern political state. Even if we were first to grant the presence of a "Christendom" situation [where] Church and State would be virtually coextensive, the nation of Israel would still remain unique. The focus of salvation is on the historical action of God in forming a people for Himself, and there is no indication anywhere in the Bible that God promises political salvation even inside the context of the full salvation of His people, let alone outside it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poemThe Cotter’s Saturday Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poemThe Cotter’s Saturday Night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25517]]></link><description><![CDATA[LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 I thirst, but not as once I did, The vain delights of earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 I thirst, but not as once I did, The vain delights of earth to share; Thy wounds, Emmanuel, all forbid That I should seek my pleasures there. It was the sight of Thy dear cross First weaned my soul from earthly things; And taught me to esteem as dross The mirth of fools, and pomp of kings. I want that grace that springs from Thee, That quickens all things where it flows; And makes a wretched thorn like me Bloom as the myrtle or the rose. Dear fountain of delight unknown! No longer sink beneath the brim, But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream! For sure, if all the plants that share The notice of Thy Father's eye, None proves less grateful to His care, Or yields Him meaner fruit than I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23461]]></link><description><![CDATA[He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him. (2 Kings 18:5)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51182]]></link><description><![CDATA[So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   You have your season, and you have but your season; neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This underpins our belief that the Bank of England is too optimistic on the growth outlook and will eventually end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36607]]></link><description><![CDATA[This underpins our belief that the Bank of England is too optimistic on the growth outlook and will eventually end up trimming interest rates by a further 25 basis points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't grow much grass on anything labeled poor. It's very bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30979]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't grow much grass on anything labeled poor. It's very bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running is one of the best solutions to a clear mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running is one of the best solutions to a clear mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted topleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21934]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted topleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27331</guid></item></channel></rss>