<?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[Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20732]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not,  Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear   Your favors nor your hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is governed by its imagination. [Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is governed by its imagination. [Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider your own life-how many times a day does some situation pop up that leads to moments of frustration and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider your own life-how many times a day does some situation pop up that leads to moments of frustration and anxiety? Surrendering your head to your heart in those moments will lead you to balance and fulfillment. As you listen to your spirit, peace follows. So follow your spirit. Build your foundation in your heart. Love must be your innermost and spontaneous response towards every person you encounter. Say to yourself inside, "I just love." Use these words as a key to start the engine running in your heart and watch life brighten with new love and understanding. Surrender to your new awareness and let love unfold the purpose of creation to you. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. Stipendiary clergy cut off by training and life from that common experience are constantly struggling to get close to the laity by wearing lay clothing, sharing in lay amusements, and organizing lay clubs; but they never quite succeed. To get close to men, it is necessary really to share their experience, and to share their experience is to share it by being in it, not merely to come as near to it as possible without being in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main storm dynamics are here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main storm dynamics are here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a long time since a visit to America stopped being an infallible formula for strengthening the reputation of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41119]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a long time since a visit to America stopped being an infallible formula for strengthening the reputation of European politicians. In the last decade, however, that contact with the American ally can result in at least as many headaches as it does advantages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26539]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour  Calls us to penance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53822]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour  Calls us to penance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52561]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. . -Charles Kuralt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38678</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[He who is greedy is always in want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18292]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is greedy is always in want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27915]]></link><description><![CDATA[If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. - "In the Nature of the Physical World", 1928.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She hit the ball really well on the front side, caught a couple of unlucky breaks and her bunker play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32438]]></link><description><![CDATA[She hit the ball really well on the front side, caught a couple of unlucky breaks and her bunker play was extremely good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. To be great is to be misunderstood. Every man is in some way my superior. A man is a god in ruins. Life is a festival only to the wise. Knowledge is the only elegance. We boil at different degrees. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it. We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. What is the hardest thing in the world? To think. Accept your genius and say what you think. Make yourself necessary to somebody. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Music causes us to think eloquently. To live without duties is obscene. It is not length of life, but depth of life. The greatest homage to truth is to use it. The only reward of virtue is virtue. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. We become what we think about all day long. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. There is no knowledge that is not power. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right. A good indignation brings out all one's powers. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind. We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams. What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Our faith comes in moments, yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is merely through a transfer of idolatry. What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?. The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. To think is to act. We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of somebody's enthusiasm. It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. This gives force to the strong - that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. -U.S. Poet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24901]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43356]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461   How wonderful it is -- is it not? -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461   How wonderful it is -- is it not? -- that literally only Christianity has taught us the true place and function of suffering. The Stoics tried the hopeless little game of denying its objective reality, or of declaring it a good in itself (which it never is); and the Pessimists attempted to revel in it, as a food to their melancholy, and as something that can no more be transformed than it can be avoided or explained. But Christ came, and He did not really explain it; He did far more: He met it, willed it, transformed it; and He taught us to do all this -- or, rather, He Himself does it within us, if we do not hinder the all-healing hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will ask him for my place again: he shall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22934]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will ask him for my place again: he shall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblest, and the ingredient is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17458]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want Cellar Roots to be here another 35 years and to still fulfill our basic mission yet adapt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want Cellar Roots to be here another 35 years and to still fulfill our basic mission yet adapt to changes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37809</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 miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42732]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14976]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and rightly--faith in God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29844]]></link><description><![CDATA[All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teenage girls are too caught up in being with a guy who's the best for everyone else and not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teenage girls are too caught up in being with a guy who's the best for everyone else and not the best for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60471]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this part of the country, people are so appreciative of what we do, ... It means so much when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37704]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this part of the country, people are so appreciative of what we do, ... It means so much when someone goes out of their way to say thank you and recognize what we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21141]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22278]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[cannot or should not be reproduced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41397]]></link><description><![CDATA[cannot or should not be reproduced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64649]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature always tends to act in the simplest way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43808</guid></item></channel></rss>