<?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[I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11584]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweetest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweetest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows, Far west, among those flowers of the shadows,  The thin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43081]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows, Far west, among those flowers of the shadows,  The thin, clear crescent lustrous over her,   Made Ruth raise question, looking through the bars    Of heaven, with eyes half-oped, what God, what comer     Unto the harvest of the eternal summer,      Had flung his golden hook down on the field of stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3715]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? It seems purposeless. Our question of the why of evil assumes the view that the world has a purpose, and what we want to know is how suffering fits into and advances this purpose. The modern view is that suffering has no purpose because nothing that happens has any purpose: the world is run by causes, not by purposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better halfe a loafe than no bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better halfe a loafe than no bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58195]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3590]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47029]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18204]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3144]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,  Signifying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51386]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,  Signifying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth hath a quiet breast. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth hath a quiet breast. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still have a full load (of coaches) this week, but next week they'll be gone and we'll have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33919]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still have a full load (of coaches) this week, but next week they'll be gone and we'll have to ad lib a little bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47858]]></link><description><![CDATA[One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can die but once. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55934]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can die but once. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44101]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. Stipendiary clergy cut off by training and life from that common experience are constantly struggling to get close to the laity by wearing lay clothing, sharing in lay amusements, and organizing lay clubs; but they never quite succeed. To get close to men, it is necessary really to share their experience, and to share their experience is to share it by being in it, not merely to come as near to it as possible without being in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has been remanded into judicial custody until August 27, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29899]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has been remanded into judicial custody until August 27,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round trot; To the churchyear a pauper is going I wot;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60071]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round trot; To the churchyear a pauper is going I wot;  The road it is rough, and the hearse has no springs,   And hark to the dirge that the sad driver sings--    Rattle his bones over the stones,     He's only a pauper whom nobody owns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It (rumour) has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron. [Lat., Linguae centum sunt, oraque centum  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54567]]></link><description><![CDATA[It (rumour) has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron. [Lat., Linguae centum sunt, oraque centum  Ferrea vox.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1916]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. -King Henry V. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55964]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5858]]></link><description><![CDATA[My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A burnt child dreads the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14728]]></link><description><![CDATA[A burnt child dreads the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19349]]></link><description><![CDATA[History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Garner) told me he's been in the big leagues a long time and to listen to him, ... He's taught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34790]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Garner) told me he's been in the big leagues a long time and to listen to him, ... He's taught me a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run  To death, for dread of death; that soul's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run  To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout,   That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just then, as by the tumult riven, Poured down at once the lowering heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just then, as by the tumult riven, Poured down at once the lowering heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,  A woman sat in unwomanly rags,   Plying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23941]]></link><description><![CDATA[With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,  A woman sat in unwomanly rags,   Plying her needle and thread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If it be all for naught, for nothingness At last, why does God make the world so fair? Why spill this golden splendor out across The western hills, and light the silver lamp Of eve? Why give me eyes to see, and soul To love so strong and deep? Then, with a pang This brightness stabs me through, and wakes within Rebellious voice to cry against all death? Why set this hunger for eternity To gnaw my heartstrings through, if death ends all? If death ends all, then evil must be good, Wrong must be right, and beauty ugliness.  God is a Judas who betrays His Son, And with a kiss, damns all the world to hell, -- If Christ rose not again.   ... Unknown soldier, killed in World War I  August 9, 2002 Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 Concluding a short series of verse on Christ: With this ambiguous earth his dealings have been told us. These abide:    The signal to a maid, the human birth,    The lesson, and the young Man crucified. But not a star of all the innumerable host of stars has heard    How he administered this terrestrial ball.    Our race has kept their Lord's entrusted Word. Of his earth-visiting feet none knows the secret, cherished, perilous,    The terrible, shamefast, frightened, whispered, sweet,    Heart-shattering secret of his way with us. No planet knows that this, our wayside planet, carrying land and wave,    Love and life multiplied, and pain and bliss,    Bears, as its chief treasure, one forsaken grave. Nor, in our little day, may his devices with the heavens be guessed,    His pilgrimage to thread the Milky Way    Or his bestowal there be manifest. But in the eternities, doubtless we shall compare    Together, hear a million alien Gospels, in what guise    He trod the Pleiades, the Lyre, and the Bear. O, be prepared, my soul! To read the inconceivable, to scan    The million forms of God those stars unroll    When, in our turn, we show to them a Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44324</guid></item></channel></rss>