<?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[Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9810]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind. [Lat., Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra  Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19457]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The case is a prototype of the new post-Afghanistan network - a little bit of everything: native-born radicals, immigrants from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The case is a prototype of the new post-Afghanistan network - a little bit of everything: native-born radicals, immigrants from Morocco, travel to places like Saudi Arabia, connection to operations like Madrid. It's like handling a number of particles of mercury, toxic in themselves and even more toxic when they come together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is love made visible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is love made visible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59530]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This business will never hold water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5024]]></link><description><![CDATA[This business will never hold water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a sense of shame, and by conciliatory means, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51745]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a sense of shame, and by conciliatory means, than by fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quite recent times we seem to have entered a particularly dangerous new phase of anthropological aberration, namely, a queer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6644]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quite recent times we seem to have entered a particularly dangerous new phase of anthropological aberration, namely, a queer combination of nihilism and deification. Theoretically, man is said to be nothing but an animal with a highly developed cerebrum. At the same time, it is believed of this man that he is capable by science and technical devices of achieving whatever he wants. The deification which might have been thought to be finally overcome, returns as it were from behind, in the form of a deification of technical creativity to which not much less than omnipotence is ascribed. After mankind has done away with the pseudo-religion of race and blood, it is faced with the even greater danger of a technocratical pseudo-religion. There is no room for human personality, freedom and justice in either of these new religions of divine man. But the most dangerous of all must be the one which makes man at the same time nothing and God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no signs of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36632]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no signs of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That law provides for competition and allows local communities to have a say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39452]]></link><description><![CDATA[That law provides for competition and allows local communities to have a say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and question deep,  All replication prompt and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59489]]></link><description><![CDATA[So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and question deep,  All replication prompt and reason strong,   For his advantage still did wake and sleep.    To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,     He had the dialect and different skill,      Catching all passions in his craft of will; . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy,  A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy,  A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember Lot's wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember Lot's wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our defense stepped up in the third quarter, and Missy hitting those two shots were just huge. It gave us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our defense stepped up in the third quarter, and Missy hitting those two shots were just huge. It gave us some breathing room and we were able to make some adjustments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was the individual who cleared on this process within Customs and Border Protection and reviewed all the material and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was the individual who cleared on this process within Customs and Border Protection and reviewed all the material and there was nothing derogatory or any hesitation on our part in moving forward with supporting this decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others. . -Eugene ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22797]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others. . -Eugene Cloutier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  To take up the cross of Christ is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to get into too many details as to what the investigation turned up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to get into too many details as to what the investigation turned up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26769]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61219]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42313]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Missouri Bar runs people through Constitutional curriculum. I would like to see high schools take that up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Missouri Bar runs people through Constitutional curriculum. I would like to see high schools take that up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9637]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65649]]></link><description><![CDATA[A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51685]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have the fingerprints of terrorist groups. But we do have the pictures of terrorist groups. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39210]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have the fingerprints of terrorist groups. But we do have the pictures of terrorist groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead;  And, then her long, loose hair flung round her head   Fell carelessly behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28483]]></link><description><![CDATA[A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226  Be not afraid that thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226  Be not afraid that thou art tempted, for the more thou art assailed by temptations, the greater friend and servant of God do I hold thee, and the greater love do I bear thee. Verily, I say to thee, let no man deem himself the perfect friend of God until he have passed through many temptations and tribulations... I am ready to endure patiently all things that my Lord would do with me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Round broken columns clasping ivy twin'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Round broken columns clasping ivy twin'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series of testimonies on the Scriptures:   A loving Personality dominates the Bible, walking among the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series of testimonies on the Scriptures:   A loving Personality dominates the Bible, walking among the trees of the garden and breathing fragrance over every scene. Always a living Person is present, speaking, pleading, loving, working, and manifesting himself whenever and wherever his people have the receptivity necessary to receive the manifestation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59479]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64189]]></link><description><![CDATA[In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64189</guid></item></channel></rss>