<?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[This book gave me back the passionate optimism of my youth. This young generation of women will have a tremendous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36764]]></link><description><![CDATA[This book gave me back the passionate optimism of my youth. This young generation of women will have a tremendous impact on the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63144]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds--they mature slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds--they mature slowly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56999]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'etre to the imperfection of man and can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'etre to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What then are we afraid of? Can we have too much of God? Is it a misfortune to be freed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7114]]></link><description><![CDATA[What then are we afraid of? Can we have too much of God? Is it a misfortune to be freed from the heavy yoke of the world, and to bear the light burden of Jesus Christ? Do we fear to be too happy, too much delivered from ourselves, from the caprices of our pride, the violence of our passions, and the tyranny of this deceitful world?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the end of his life, by the look of it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29901]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the end of his life, by the look of it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I light my candle from their torches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25049]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I light my candle from their torches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of valour is discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of valour is discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61215]]></link><description><![CDATA[How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bear is to conquer our fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15384]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bear is to conquer our fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15384</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[The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats;  Chambers of the great are jails, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats;  Chambers of the great are jails,   And head-winds right for royal sails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west,  Where the sun, his day's work ended, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44525]]></link><description><![CDATA[A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west,  Where the sun, his day's work ended,   Lingers as in content,    There falls on the old, gray city     An influence luminous and serene,      A shining peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45757]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship Will stay with us at the last, backed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38729]]></link><description><![CDATA[So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship Will stay with us at the last, backed by the night Whose ruse gave it our final meaning]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61447]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're kids, but we still want our voices heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're kids, but we still want our voices heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24727]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mmmmmmmmmm....You can almost smell the burning pork...Hey you ever thrown rocks at cops? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mmmmmmmmmm....You can almost smell the burning pork...Hey you ever thrown rocks at cops?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully this will get over there and, you know, maybe we can find him like we did Jill Carroll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully this will get over there and, you know, maybe we can find him like we did Jill Carroll.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9539]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. In my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul is healed by being with children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul is healed by being with children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They knew the line was there. It could have caused a lot of people to get sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34134]]></link><description><![CDATA[They knew the line was there. It could have caused a lot of people to get sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[some people who have same-sex attraction have changedand instead have successfully actualized their heterosexual potential and are now ex-gay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35614]]></link><description><![CDATA[some people who have same-sex attraction have changedand instead have successfully actualized their heterosexual potential and are now ex-gay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5172]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt to destroy the young challenger among ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt to destroy the young challenger among the Tory modernizers' camp and to keep the Conservatives firmly on the right of British politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47566]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matters and take full heed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matters and take full heed to thyself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government is asleep -- there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government is asleep -- there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's tryingto live together afterwards that causes all the problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21337]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's tryingto live together afterwards that causes all the problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dodgerest of all the dodgers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dodgerest of all the dodgers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58794]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should never as a city attempt to put profit over public safety. Public safety must be at the top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34544]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should never as a city attempt to put profit over public safety. Public safety must be at the top of the list of those services that should be the last to be cut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64481</guid></item></channel></rss>