<?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[Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. -Buddha.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To die will be an awfully big adventure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/663]]></link><description><![CDATA[To die will be an awfully big adventure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No legacy is so rich as honesty. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55726]]></link><description><![CDATA[No legacy is so rich as honesty. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55349]]></link><description><![CDATA[O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66738]]></link><description><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37725]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TV can be so fluid. If you can get a hot show or two you can build around that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30409]]></link><description><![CDATA[TV can be so fluid. If you can get a hot show or two you can build around that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men dislike a teaching which lays upon them strict moral requirements that check their natural desires. Yet they like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men dislike a teaching which lays upon them strict moral requirements that check their natural desires. Yet they like to be considered as Christians, and listen willingly to the hypocrites who preach that our righteousness is only that God holds us to be righteous, even if we are bad people, and that our righteousness is without us and not in us, for, according to such teaching, they can be counted as holy people. Woe to those who preach that men of sinful walk can not be considered pious; most are furious when they hear this, as we see and experience, and would like all such preachers to be driven away or even killed; but where that cannot be done, they strengthen their hypocrite preachers with praise, comfort, presents and protection, so that they may go on happily and give no place to the truth, however clear it may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're like a family and there's a lot of teamwork to help each other here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31013]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're like a family and there's a lot of teamwork to help each other here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now comes the mystery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now comes the mystery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's better we downplay our chances. I think we should cherish this role as the underdog, because it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's better we downplay our chances. I think we should cherish this role as the underdog, because it's the perfect way to ride this race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's. [Ger., Schad'um die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's. [Ger., Schad'um die Leut'! Sind sonst wackre Bruder  Aber das denkt, wie ein Seifensieder.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parenthood is one long exercise in relinquishing control -- or the illusion that we ever had it. Postparenthood is about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parenthood is one long exercise in relinquishing control -- or the illusion that we ever had it. Postparenthood is about acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23970]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defining night by darkness, death by dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defining night by darkness, death by dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not their capacity for meditation, but their capacity for suffering and love. For there is a hard and costly element, a deep seriousness, a crucial choice, in all genuine religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51718]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61431]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17044]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20378]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get the kids involved. We'll tell them about three different times, 'Say no and shout,' and then we say, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42395]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get the kids involved. We'll tell them about three different times, 'Say no and shout,' and then we say, 'Ah, we can't hear you?' and they do it again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54853]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conflict is the beginning of consciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as great seamen, using all their wealth And skills in Neptune's deep invisible paths,  In tall ships richly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43990]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as great seamen, using all their wealth And skills in Neptune's deep invisible paths,  In tall ships richly built and ribbed with brass,   To put a girdle round about the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50888]]></link><description><![CDATA[One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11862]]></link><description><![CDATA[For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963   The sort of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963   The sort of love I have been describing... can also be felt for bodies that claim more than a natural affection: for a Church or (alas) a party in a Church, or for a religious order. This terrible subject would require a book to itself. Here it will be enough to say that the Heavenly Society is also an earthly society. Our (merely natural) patriotism towards the latter can very easily borrow the transcendent claims of the former and use them to justify the most abominable actions. If ever the book which I am not going to write is written, it must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery. Large areas of "the World" will not hear us till we have publicly disowned much of our past. Why should they? We have shouted the name of Christ and enacted the service of Moloch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A peaceful mind generates power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22634]]></link><description><![CDATA[A peaceful mind generates power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have cut my leg with my own adze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50834]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have cut my leg with my own adze.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's going to be very difficult for the judge to find penalties that could indeed be construed as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42054]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's going to be very difficult for the judge to find penalties that could indeed be construed as forward-looking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18353]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carve your name in hearts, not marble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carve your name in hearts, not marble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates. [Lat., Fingit equum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58750]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates. [Lat., Fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magister  Ire viam qua monstret eques.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is most powerful who governs himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51149]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is most powerful who governs himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I own the soft impeachment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I own the soft impeachment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like a Stepping Stone... I am that kind, young lady that offers a wanderer food 'n drink ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like a Stepping Stone... I am that kind, young lady that offers a wanderer food 'n drink off to the side of the road -- in the middle of nowhere as they journey into the next phase of their life. I am that kind, young lady that will change a stranger's life forever, and be a burned out memory in the back of their mind... I was that lady with the sad green eyes, the kind smile... The one that offered you a helping hand and good conversation while you ate your food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss what dreadful things will happen if wild skepticism runs its course. It has run its course. It is vain for eloquent atheists to talk of the great truths that will be revealed if once we see free thought begin. We have seen it end. It has no more questions to ask; it has questioned itself. You cannot call up any wilder vision than a city in which men ask themselves if they have any selves. You cannot fancy a more skeptical world than that in which men doubt whether there is a world. It might certainly have reached its bankruptcy more quickly and cleanly if it had not been feebly hampered by the application of indefensible laws of blasphemy or by the absurd pretense that modern England is Christian. But it would have reached the bankruptcy anyhow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8342</guid></item></channel></rss>