<?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[Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be!  He would dress me up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be!  He would dress me up in silks so fine,   And praise and toast me at his wine."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true poem is the poet's mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46757]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true poem is the poet's mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17621]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble you can get into, just cause you want 5, 000 bucks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble you can get into, just cause you want 5, 000 bucks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will  Would not admit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will  Would not admit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34881]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not beoverjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not beoverjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16428]]></link><description><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise undeserved s satire in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise undeserved s satire in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10564]]></link><description><![CDATA[... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By many a happy accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/297]]></link><description><![CDATA[By many a happy accident.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he said that, I believed him, that he didn't send me here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36311]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he said that, I believed him, that he didn't send me here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the irresistable desire to be desired irresistably. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the irresistable desire to be desired irresistably.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  It was not the pleasant things in the world that came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  It was not the pleasant things in the world that came from the devil, and the dreary things from God! It was "sin brought death into the world and all our woe"; as the sin vanishes the woe will vanish too. God Himself is the ever-blessed God. He dwells in the light of joy as well as of purity, and instead of becoming more like Him as we become more miserable, and as all the brightness and glory of life are extinguished, we become more like God as our blessedness becomes more complete. The great Christian graces are radiant with happiness. Faith, hope, charity, there is no sadness in them; and if penitence makes the heart sad, penitence belongs to the sinner, not to the saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air  Or numbly cling and shiver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3563]]></link><description><![CDATA[What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air  Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone!   How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare,    As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills     The bowl between me and those distant hills,      And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound;  It speaks itself, and what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound;  It speaks itself, and what it does contain,   In all things needful to be known is plain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread,  And having once turned round, walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread,  And having once turned round, walks on,   And turns no more his head;    Because he knows a frightful fiend     Doth close behind him tread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controlled time is our true wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Controlled time is our true wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I've tried to tell them is that it's an acknowledgement of their hard work, but not to let it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31554]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I've tried to tell them is that it's an acknowledgement of their hard work, but not to let it go to their heads. They still have to go out and work hard every single day in order to maintain it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18610]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of Apple's advertising is consistently above average. And more often than not, it's world class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of Apple's advertising is consistently above average. And more often than not, it's world class.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foolish tongues talke by the dozen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  This astonishing sense of spiritual attack which, it seems to me, must inevitably follow the continual reading of the four Gospels, without preconception but with an alert mind, is not the sole privilege of the translator. It can happen to anyone who is prepared to abandon proof-texts and a closed attitude of mind, and allow not merely the stories but the quality of the Figure Who exists behind the stories to meet him afresh. Neat snippets of a few verses are of course useful in their way, but the overall sweep and much of the significance of the Gospel narratives are lost to us unless we are prepared to read the Gospels through, not once but several times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to livehappily, and to be at peace with his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21944]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to livehappily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch ofbastards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch ofbastards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48936</guid></item></channel></rss>