<?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[At last the Muses rose, . . . And scattered, . . . as they flew, Their blooming wreaths from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54315]]></link><description><![CDATA[At last the Muses rose, . . . And scattered, . . . as they flew, Their blooming wreaths from fair Valclusa's bowers  To Arno's myrtle border.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65750]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romance is the poetry of literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romance is the poetry of literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to save our country! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43184]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on thespiritual side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on thespiritual side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11327]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34940]]></link><description><![CDATA[will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17346]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556   One of the catchwords in contemporary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556   One of the catchwords in contemporary Protestantism is that religion must aid man in "becoming human" or even "truly human" -- whatever that means -- and the "model" is Christ. Take the "obvious things" about Christ as listed by a contemporary minister:  He was a popular and controversial preacher; He gathered a group of followers; He spent most of his time with the disinherited; He taught with authority; He never married; He never (so far as we know) held a job; He did not participate in public affairs; He did not have income, property, or an address; He was in bitter and frequent conflict with the religious and political authorities; He seemed to expect that the world would be eminently, radically, and supernaturally transformed; He attacked the traditions and values of his own people; He practically forced the authorities to prosecute and execute him. There is nothing exclusively religious, much less Christian, in this description, which, with a few exceptions, might apply also to Socrates or to "Che" Guevara. I asked many socially oriented ministers why they were Christians at all. Some said through faith, and some said that Christianity gave them courage and the motivation to endure (but so do other beliefs). Some said they hardly knew and that, if another, more acceptable, ideology came along, they would embrace it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. [Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14725]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His pitch count was good. We don't have another game until Thursday, so after the fifth inning I told him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32715]]></link><description><![CDATA[His pitch count was good. We don't have another game until Thursday, so after the fifth inning I told him I was going to give him a shot to go the full distance. I'm very proud of what we saw from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intend some fear; Be not you spoke with but by mighty suit;  And look you get a prayer book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intend some fear; Be not you spoke with but by mighty suit;  And look you get a prayer book in your hand   And stand between two churchmen, good my lord,    For on that ground I'll make a holy descant;     And be not easily won to our requests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29547]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -King Richard III. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60316]]></link><description><![CDATA[If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But death is sure to kill all he can get And all is fish with him that comes to net. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16051]]></link><description><![CDATA[But death is sure to kill all he can get And all is fish with him that comes to net.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34767]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would have been wording such as 'the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' - July 27, 1992Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharing is loving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharing is loving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the hills, and over the main, To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;  The Queen commands, and we'll obey,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the hills, and over the main, To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;  The Queen commands, and we'll obey,   Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23674]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For murder though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51256]]></link><description><![CDATA[For murder though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abuse of cabmen in a block. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abuse of cabmen in a block.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? [Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1666]]></link><description><![CDATA[What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? [Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man perfect to the finger tips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50179]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man perfect to the finger tips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a kind of military service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a kind of military service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in water. [Fr., L'injure se grave en metal; et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11666]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in water. [Fr., L'injure se grave en metal; et le bienfait s'escrit en l'onde.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am headed to the World Amateur Championships in Myrtle Beach, ... I will be leaving next Sunday and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am headed to the World Amateur Championships in Myrtle Beach, ... I will be leaving next Sunday and the tournament goes from late August to early September.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18129]]></link><description><![CDATA[At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brazen helm of daffodillies, With a glitter toward the light.  Purple violets for the mouth,   Breathing perfumes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brazen helm of daffodillies, With a glitter toward the light.  Purple violets for the mouth,   Breathing perfumes west and south;    And a sword of flashing lilies,     Holden ready for the fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've kind of been in denial about this problem. Denial is no longer an option. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30388]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've kind of been in denial about this problem. Denial is no longer an option.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian knowledge, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian knowledge, a question whether any nation uninstructed in religion should receive instruction; or whether that, instruction should be imparted to them by a translation of the holy-books into their own language. If obedience to the will of GOD be necessary to happiness, and knowledge of his will be necessary to obedience, I know not how he that withholds this knowledge, or delays it, can be said to love his neighbour as himself. He, that voluntarily continues ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces; as to him that should extinguish the tapers of a light-house, might justly be imputed the calamities of shipwrecks. (Continued tomorrow)   ... a letter from Samuel Johnson to William Drummond of Edinburgh, 1766  July 13, 2002   Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity; and as no man is good but as he wishes the good of others, so no man can be good in the highest degree, who wishes not to others the largest measures of the greatest good. To omit for a year, or for a day, the most efficacious method of advancing Christianity [i.e., the Bible], in compliance with any purposes that terminate this side of the grave, is a crime [the like] of which I know not that the world has yet had an example.   ... a letter from Samuel Johnson to William Drummond of Edinburgh, 1766  July 14, 2002 Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The "good" man, the man whose god is righteousness, has as his life's ambition the keeping of rules and commandments and the keeping of himself uncontaminated by the world. This sounds admirable; but, as the truth of Christ showed, the whole of such living, the whole drive and ambition, the whole edifice, is self-centered. That entire process of effort must be abandoned if a man is to give himself in love to God and his fellows. He must lose his life if he is ever going to find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7956</guid></item></channel></rss>