<?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[Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, when the ground our father Adam till'd, And mother Eve the humble distaff held,  Who then his pedigree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, when the ground our father Adam till'd, And mother Eve the humble distaff held,  Who then his pedigree presumed to trace,   Or challenged the prerogative of place?    [Lat., Primus Adam duro cum vertet arva ligone,     Pensaque de vili deceret Eva colo:      Ecquis in hoc poterat vir nobilis orbe videri?       Et modo quisquam alios ante locandue erir?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it doth singe yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it doth singe yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told them, in that situation you can't think about making or missing. You've just got to attack the rim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32645]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told them, in that situation you can't think about making or missing. You've just got to attack the rim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking to bite something soft, he found it hard. [Catching a Tartar] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking to bite something soft, he found it hard. [Catching a Tartar]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61896]]></link><description><![CDATA[When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6416]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62311]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too;  For no form of a god, and no fashion   Man has made in his desperate passion,    But is worthy some worship of mine;     Not too hot with a gross belief,      Nor yet too cold with pride,       I will bow me down where my brothers bow,        Humble, but open eyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46515]]></link><description><![CDATA[All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath no power that hath not power to use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47933]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath no power that hath not power to use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;  At fifty, chides his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43177]]></link><description><![CDATA[At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;  At fifty, chides his infamous delay,   Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve,    In all the magnanimity of thought;     Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.      And why? because he thinks himself immortal,       All men think all men mortal but themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel has opened the gates to hell by assassinating one of our leaders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Israel has opened the gates to hell by assassinating one of our leaders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1998-99, enterprise software companies were actually harmed by shift to Internet computing because they didn't have products to offer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30312]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1998-99, enterprise software companies were actually harmed by shift to Internet computing because they didn't have products to offer in that category. They are now just beginning to enjoy the product cycle in Internet-architected software. In addition, there is a broad shift to e-business throughout the economy and a heightened appreciation of the value of e-commerce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45816</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[A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iv. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iv. Sc. 8.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust"; Because, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust"; Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34308]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just tough. You're better off swimming right now, than trying to play football. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32326]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just tough. You're better off swimming right now, than trying to play football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio plus facunda.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools-to-free-the-world, they go, Primeval hearts from Buffalo.  Red cataracts of France to-day   Awake, three thousand miles away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools-to-free-the-world, they go, Primeval hearts from Buffalo.  Red cataracts of France to-day   Awake, three thousand miles away,    An echo of Niagara     The cataract of Niagara.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build me a shrine, and I could kneel To rural Gods, or prostrate fall;  Did I not see, did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Build me a shrine, and I could kneel To rural Gods, or prostrate fall;  Did I not see, did I not feel.   That One Great Spirit governs all.    O Heaven, permit that I may lie     Where o'er my corse green branches wave;      And those who from life's tumults fly       With kindred feelings press my grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hate fatigues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18818]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hate fatigues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think there was any doubt at all. We were probably a little nervous when we were down by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39214]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think there was any doubt at all. We were probably a little nervous when we were down by about nine, but we're a fighting team and weren't going down without a fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you. Each one a line or two: "I'm fine, baby. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24632]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you. Each one a line or two: "I'm fine, baby. How are you?" I would send them, but I know that it's just not enough. My words are cold and flat, and you deserve more than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anarchy is a form of crime ... We will search the perpetrators, detain them and bring them to trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anarchy is a form of crime ... We will search the perpetrators, detain them and bring them to trial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65866]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything yields to diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything yields to diligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29524</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/6981]]></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   In the first ages, [catechizing] was a work of long time; months, sometimes years, were devoted to the arduous task of disabusing the mind of the incipient Christian of its pagan errors, and of moulding it upon the Christian faith. The Scriptures indeed were at hand for the study of those who could avail themselves of them, but St. Iranaeus does not hesitate to speak of whole races who had been converted to Christianity, without being able to read them. To be unable to read or write was in those times no evidence of want of learning; the hermits of the deserts were, in one sense of the word, illiterate, yet the great St. Anthony, though he knew not letters, was a match in disputation for the learned philosophers who came to try him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63200]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18499</guid></item></channel></rss>