<?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 you start a conversation with the assumptionthat you are right or that you must win,obviously it is difficult to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9065]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you start a conversation with the assumptionthat you are right or that you must win,obviously it is difficult to talk.He is author of the Citizenship Papers and answeredquestions at a Washington DC book store.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky,  Hear the wedding song!   For the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky,  Hear the wedding song!   For the happy groom is near,    Tall as Mars, and statelier,     Hear the wedding song!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told you, sir, they were redhot with drinking; So full of valor that they smote the air  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told you, sir, they were redhot with drinking; So full of valor that they smote the air  For breathing in their faces, beat the ground,   For kissing of their feet; yet always bending    Towards their project.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, Idefinitely overpaid for my carpet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22750]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, Idefinitely overpaid for my carpet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51564]]></link><description><![CDATA[These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did have a very solid fall, which is a little bit unusual. A couple years ago, we had a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30882]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did have a very solid fall, which is a little bit unusual. A couple years ago, we had a real good fall, and that was the year when we had a very good team. So I'm hoping this is a good sign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have tried so hard to do right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15225]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have tried so hard to do right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The numbers on the southwest border are much higher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The numbers on the southwest border are much higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting has been very useful to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting has been very useful to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9192]]></link><description><![CDATA[A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in the past has one thing in its favor - it's cheaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living in the past has one thing in its favor - it's cheaper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully a few days of rest will give her an opportunity to heal up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully a few days of rest will give her an opportunity to heal up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her years Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;  But there are forms which Time to touch forbears.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her years Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;  But there are forms which Time to touch forbears.   And turns aside his scythe to vulgar things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Lapdog A man had an Ass, and a Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty. The Ass ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Lapdog A man had an Ass, and a Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty. The Ass was left in a stable and had plenty of oats and hay to eat, just as any other Ass would. The Lapdog knew many tricks and was a great favorite with his master, who often fondled him and seldom went out to dine without bringing him home some tidbit to eat. The Ass, on the contrary, had much work to do in grinding the corn-mill and in carrying wood from the forest or burdens from the farm. He often lamented his own hard fate and contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the Lapdog, till at last one day he broke his cords and halter, and galloped into his master's house, kicking up his heels without measure, and frisking and fawning as well as he could. He next tried to jump about his master as he had seen the Lapdog do, but he broke the table and smashed all the dishes upon it to atoms. He then attempted to lick his master, and jumped upon his back. The servants, hearing the strange hubbub and perceiving the danger of their master, quickly relieved him, and drove out the Ass to his stable with kicks and clubs and cuffs. The Ass, as he returned to his stall beaten nearly to death, thus lamented: I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not have been contented to labor with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day like that useless little Lapdog!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an attempt to smear a well-known group with allegations of involvement in espionage activity. They are preparing public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41246]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an attempt to smear a well-known group with allegations of involvement in espionage activity. They are preparing public opinion for a government move to close us down, which they can now do under the new law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The helicopter didn't transmit any kind of distress call that we know of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The helicopter didn't transmit any kind of distress call that we know of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perversnes makes one squint ey'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perversnes makes one squint ey'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16008]]></link><description><![CDATA[E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the lost pleiad seen no more below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the lost pleiad seen no more below.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the Judiciary, which they may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the Judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them hate so long as they fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them hate so long as they fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  We ought indeed to expect to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  We ought indeed to expect to find the works of God in such things as the advance of knowledge. Knowledge of the physical universe is not to be thought of as irrelevant to Christian faith [simply] because it does not lead to saving knowledge of God. In so far as it is concerned with God's creation, physical science is a fitting study for God's children. Moreover, the advance of scientific knowledge does negatively correct and enlarge theological notions--at the least, the geologists and astrophysicists have helped us to rid ourselves of parochial notions of God, and filled in some of the meaning of such phrases as "almighty".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38589]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   This matter of "salvation" is, when seen intuitively, a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   This matter of "salvation" is, when seen intuitively, a very simple thing. But when we analyze it, it turns into a complex tangle of paradoxes. We become ourselves by dying to ourselves. We gain only what we give up, and if we give up everything we gain everything. We cannot find ourselves within ourselves, but only in others; yet at the same time, before we can go out to others we must first find ourselves. We must forget ourselves in order to become truly conscious of who we are. The best way to love ourselves is to love others; yet we cannot love others unless we love ourselves, since it is written, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." But if we love ourselves in the wrong way, we become incapable of loving anybody else. And indeed when we love ourselves wrongly, we hate ourselves; if we hate ourselves we cannot help hating others. Yet there is a sense in which we must hate others and leave them in order to find God... As for this finding of God, we cannot even look for Him unless we have already found Him, and we cannot find Him unless He has first found us. We cannot begin to seek Him without a special gift of His grace; yet if we wait for grace to move us before beginning to seek Him, we will probably never begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44374]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932   Now what ought to have been the attitude of thoughtful Christians towards ecclesiastical authority, resulting from our Lord's whole attitude towards it? I think that the Catholic Church ought to have maintained and used ecclesiastical and sacerdotal authority, but that its maintenance and its use ought to have been accompanied with a continual fear. Because they had before them this fact, that however divinely authoritative, however securely resting on a basis of legitimate and genuine inspiration, yet the ecclesiastical authority of the Old Covenant, by no process of sudden revolution, but simply by a process of gradual development, was capable of becoming something so utterly alien in spirit from what it was intended to be, that when the Christ came, to prepare for whom and to welcome whom was the one reason for which it existed, it did in fact reject Him utterly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20194]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a privilege as well as being exciting. The fans are extremely tribal, very parochial, very supportive, and it's one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32586]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a privilege as well as being exciting. The fans are extremely tribal, very parochial, very supportive, and it's one of the huge highlights so far of my coaching career.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been together now for forty years, An' it don't seem a day too much;  There ain't a lady ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been together now for forty years, An' it don't seem a day too much;  There ain't a lady livin' in the land   As I'd swop for my dear old Dutch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think the drinking water on aircraft is safe to drink and has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39580]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think the drinking water on aircraft is safe to drink and has been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity... If you wanted to run the blender, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity... If you wanted to run the blender, you had to rub balloons on your head. If you wanted to cook, you had to pull off a sweater real quick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sincerer love than the love of food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27611]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sincerer love than the love of food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27611</guid></item></channel></rss>