<?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[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20081]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. 'Hear that?' you say, 'That's dynamite, baby.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step toward repairing our loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step toward repairing our loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross    Teach me. O God, to use all the circumstances of my life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross    Teach me. O God, to use all the circumstances of my life to-day that they may bring forth in me the fruits of holiness rather than the fruits of sin.   Let me use disappointment as material for patience:   Let me use success as material for thankfulness:   Let me use suspence as material for perseverance:   Let me use danger as material for courage:   Let me use reproach as material for longsuffering:   Let me use praise as material for humility:   Let me use pleasures as material for temperance:   Let me use pains as material for endurance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray;  As night to stars, woe lustre gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray;  As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love one another as Jesus loves you. Try to show kindness in all that you do. Be gentle and loving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love one another as Jesus loves you. Try to show kindness in all that you do. Be gentle and loving in deed and in thought, For these are the things Jesus taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[State level legislators can use these scientifically researched results to help make policy. It's a source of information to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39923]]></link><description><![CDATA[State level legislators can use these scientifically researched results to help make policy. It's a source of information to know what's going on in rural Iowa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate;  And whatever sky's above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate;  And whatever sky's above me,   Here's a heart for every fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui  Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48360]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66799]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There are a number of Hebrew words about salvation which also mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There are a number of Hebrew words about salvation which also mean "to bring into a spacious environment", "to be at one's ease", "to be free to develop". "Salvation" can be seen then as the new life in Christ, in which we are to be "free to develop" into Christ-like people. For this maturing to take place, there needs to be a breaking down of barriers, a breaking up of the soil of our personalities, and a healing of inner wounds and hurts. The soil is softened, the clay becomes malleable through the experience of the tender love of God and the accepting, non-judgmental love of Christians. We cannot be beaten into shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5265]]></link><description><![CDATA[My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since you go where all have gone before, why do you torment your your disgraceful life with such mean ambitions, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since you go where all have gone before, why do you torment your your disgraceful life with such mean ambitions, O miser? [Lat., Abiturus illuc priores abierunt,  Quid mente caeca torques spiritum?   Tibi dico, avare.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a nice little market to get into. I worked most of the casinos and became the magic guy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32271]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a nice little market to get into. I worked most of the casinos and became the magic guy in town. It was a great way to get into the industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you woke up breathing, congratulations!  You have another chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65717]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you woke up breathing, congratulations!  You have another chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27663]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putin asked us not to mention a single country in the G8 final document and we did that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Putin asked us not to mention a single country in the G8 final document and we did that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  If our faith is not relevant to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  If our faith is not relevant to our daily life in the world and in the parish, then it is no use; and if we cannot be Christians in our work, in the neighborhood, in our political decisions, then we had better stop being Christians. A piety reserved for Sundays is no message for this age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr Watson lurched forward towards the knife. He walked into it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr Watson lurched forward towards the knife. He walked into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty has a lot to do with character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty has a lot to do with character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A week ago, you could sense the soul of New Orleans from the people who were still around. There's no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A week ago, you could sense the soul of New Orleans from the people who were still around. There's no people. It's like trying to interview someone's guitar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/591]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is on a locomotive headed right for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now twilight lets her curtain down And pins it with a star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now twilight lets her curtain down And pins it with a star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on the the lake of Galilee: The wine of life is spilt upon the sand, My heart is as some famine-murdered land Whence all good things have perished utterly, And well I know my soul in Hell must lie If I this night before God's throne must stand. "He sleeps perchance, or rideth to the chase, Like Baal, when his prophets holed that name From morn to noon on Carmel's smitten height." Nay, peace! I shall behold, before the night, The feet of brass, the robe more white than flame, The wounded hands, the weary human face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not so keen,    Because thou art not seen,     Although thy breath be rude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take all the swift advantage of the hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take all the swift advantage of the hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good writing is clear thinking made visible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good writing is clear thinking made visible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the CranesSome cranes made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat. For a long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the CranesSome cranes made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat. For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an empty sling, chased them away by the terror he inspired; but when the birds found that the sling was only swung in the air, they ceased to take any notice of it and would not move. The Farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling with stones, and killed a great number. The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying to each other, It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in earnest what he can do. If words suffice not, blows must follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51601]]></link><description><![CDATA[He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To apprehend thus Draws us a profit from all things we see,  And often, to our comfort, shall we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3917]]></link><description><![CDATA[To apprehend thus Draws us a profit from all things we see,  And often, to our comfort, shall we find   The sharded beetle in a safer hold    Than is the full-winged eagle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can get that same high with that same person again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a poet or an artist puts himself into his Productions he is criticized. But that is exactly what God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8431]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a poet or an artist puts himself into his Productions he is criticized. But that is exactly what God does, he does so in Christ. And precisely that is Christianity. The creation was really only completed when God included himself in it. Before the coming of Christ, God was certainly in the creation, but as an invisible sign, like the watermark in paper. But the creation was completed by the Incarnation because God thereby included himself in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of three letters, " F U R." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of three letters, " F U R."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955   Read whatever chapter of Scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it -- yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is not an exact science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is not an exact science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. [Lat., Nulla est laus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19717]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. [Lat., Nulla est laus ibi esse integrum, ubi nemo est, qui aut possit aut conetur rumpere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19717</guid></item></channel></rss>