<?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[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20243]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. •G. K. Chesterton  Often a noble face hides filthy ways. •Euripides  The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57456]]></link><description><![CDATA[It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  [May] the Lord lead further and further those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  [May] the Lord lead further and further those who do in earnest want to live the Joshua [i.e., transformed] life. It means a daily dying to self and what self wants; a daily turning to our Master with a "Yes, Lord" to everything, even to what is most against the grain. May He quicken those who have not yet begun to live this life to see what they are missing, before it is too late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64126]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18315]]></link><description><![CDATA[My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really psyched for O.A.R. They'll certainly be a hell of a lot better than Sonic Youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36844]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really psyched for O.A.R. They'll certainly be a hell of a lot better than Sonic Youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threw a temper tantrum with a spray can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38650]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threw a temper tantrum with a spray can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In her eyes a thought Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn,  A mystical forewarning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14815]]></link><description><![CDATA[In her eyes a thought Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn,  A mystical forewarning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits  And rank me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits  And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392   Pierce that in you, that was the cause of Christ's piercing; that is sin and the lusts thereof. Look and be pierced with love of Him, who so loved you, that He gave Himself in this sort to be pierced for you. Look upon Him, and His heart opened, and from that gate of hope promise yourself, and look for all manner of things that good are: the deliverance from the evil of our present misery [and] the restoring to the good of our primitive felicity. Look back upon it with some pain; for one way or other, look upon it we must.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fall of dropping water wears away the stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fall of dropping water wears away the stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a good initiative to resolve the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35730]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a good initiative to resolve the situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25101]]></link><description><![CDATA[To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17959]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37572]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to see where the jobs land and where jobs open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32368]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to see where the jobs land and where jobs open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a small star shines in the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a small star shines in the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan;  He is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan;  He is not ugly, and is not lame,   But really a handsome and charming man.    A man in the prime of life is the devil,     Obliging, a man of the world, and civil;      A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate,       He talks quite glibly of church and state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47232]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15646]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â he is mentally committed to it. He's doing another movie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29747]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â he is mentally committed to it. He's doing another movie now. What's most important to me about this guy, first, is that he's incredible with visuals. But he's also a spiritual guy, a Zen Buddhist. ... Galactus is a force of nature, not a being. That's all I'm saying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These arrests make absolutely clear the presence throughout Europe and in Spain of members or collaborators of radical Islamic terrorist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29318]]></link><description><![CDATA[These arrests make absolutely clear the presence throughout Europe and in Spain of members or collaborators of radical Islamic terrorist organizations, and that is a cause for continuing concern,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sports do not build character. They reveal it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59545]]></link><description><![CDATA[It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14099]]></link><description><![CDATA["Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46215]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: And the children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13160]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's armed without that's innocent within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20958]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's armed without that's innocent within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/143]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll try anything that doesn't involve deep water, pain or Solaris 2.4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57113]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll try anything that doesn't involve deep water, pain or Solaris 2.4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You always admire what you really don't understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/598]]></link><description><![CDATA[You always admire what you really don't understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were probably there (at the accident scene) 20 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32336]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were probably there (at the accident scene) 20 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to make sure that we are prepared when and if something does happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to make sure that we are prepared when and if something does happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It humiliates millions and millions of ordinary peace-loving Muslims, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28567]]></link><description><![CDATA[It humiliates millions and millions of ordinary peace-loving Muslims,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fervent hope is it brings some peace, comfort or satisfaction to the victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fervent hope is it brings some peace, comfort or satisfaction to the victims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want faith, I want knowledge. I do not want hope, I want truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want faith, I want knowledge. I do not want hope, I want truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52623</guid></item></channel></rss>