<?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 enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26065]]></link><description><![CDATA[An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series about the early church:   The sure way to success for any commercial venture is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series about the early church:   The sure way to success for any commercial venture is to suggest that those people who buy things from it, or gamble on its terms, are members of a "club", a "circle". Study the advertisements in any popular magazine: people are "invited to apply for membership"; "members will receive a catalogue"; they are even offered "rules", which they gladly accept because the need for authority lies heavily upon them; they then receive a card admitting them to the circle, with the "President's signature" printed on it. In the need for belonging, the acknowledgement of dependence, may lie the greatest opportunity of the Christian evangelist. It is not unlike the conditions under which the early Church worked. In the later Roman Empire, crumbling under its own size, its communications and resources stretched to the utmost, the mystery-religions came into their own. Rites of initiation, the sharing of secret knowledge, offered to people of all classes an escape from the perplexities of life, a retreat into a closed circle of the elect where they might feel that their transformed personalities had some significance. Who can know how many weary souls there were who strayed into the Church through rumours of a secret rite of purification, of a shared meal that conferred wisdom, and who remained to comprehend the fullness of the Godhead, a belonging greater than they had ever imagined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unacceptable. With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league looked at this game and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31573]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unacceptable. With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league looked at this game and thought Columbus didn't have a shot, and I think maybe that is what we thought too. We were a little complacent, because I can think of one and half good chances we had. I think Kevin [Hartman] came up big to keep us in it, but it wasn't good enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43613]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28485]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19464]]></link><description><![CDATA[France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15551]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17637]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65785]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was keen to return home and, although we rate him highly here, we did not like to see him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35078]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was keen to return home and, although we rate him highly here, we did not like to see him unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle  It is often said with a sneer that the God of Israel was only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle  It is often said with a sneer that the God of Israel was only a God of Battles, "a mere barbaric Lord of Hosts" pitted in rivalry against other gods only as their envious foe. Well it is for the world that He was indeed a God of Battles. Well it is for us that He was to all the rest only a rival and a foe. In the ordinary way, it would have been only too easy for them to have achieved the desolate disaster of conceiving Him as a friend. It would have been only too easy for them to have seen Him stretching out His hands in love and reconciliation, embracing Baal and kissing the painted face of Astarte... It would have been easy enough for His worshipers to follow the enlightened course of Syncretism and the pooling of all the pagan traditions. It is obvious indeed that His followers were always sliding down this easy slope; and it required the almost demoniac energy of certain inspired demagogues, who testified to the divine unity in words that are still like winds of inspiration and ruin, [to stop them]. The more we really understand of the ancient conditions that contributed to the final culture of the Faith, the more we shall have a real and even a realistic reverence for the greatness of the Prophets of Israel. As it was, while the whole world melted into this mass of confused mythology, this Deity who is called tribal and narrow, precisely because He was what is called tribal and narrow, preserved the primary religion of all mankind. He was tribal enough to be universal. He was as narrow as the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sellers definitely have to be creative. They need as much help as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sellers definitely have to be creative. They need as much help as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the games end we shall see who gaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49144]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the games end we shall see who gaines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63948]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20381]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drinking will make a man quaff, Quaffing will make a man sing,  Singing will make a man laugh,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drinking will make a man quaff, Quaffing will make a man sing,  Singing will make a man laugh,   And laughing long life doth bring,    Says old Simon the King.   - Unattributed Author, Old Sir Simon the King,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5547]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have circled, and they are now closing in. It's not looking good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28954]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have circled, and they are now closing in. It's not looking good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3846]]></link><description><![CDATA[All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. [Sp., No todas hermosuras enamoran, que algunas alegran la vista, y no rinden la voluntad.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27315]]></link><description><![CDATA[While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12696]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29440]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main  Kneel down and bless the empery   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43208]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main  Kneel down and bless the empery   Of his majestic reign;    But a sovereign, gentler, mightier,     Man from his throne has hurled,      For the hand that rocks the cradle       Is the hand that rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one. It's very difficult to convince a jury that an accident ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one. It's very difficult to convince a jury that an accident could have happened twice ? that lightning strikes twice. I believe it does. I think this is one [case] where there was reasonable doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26441]]></link><description><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51610]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no retracing our steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50363]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no retracing our steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have designed these two new projectors with features that are essential to business and education professionals. The combination of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35047]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have designed these two new projectors with features that are essential to business and education professionals. The combination of brightness and valuable features at an affordable price makes these projectors perfect for any cost-conscious customer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. [Lat., Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19614]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. [Lat., Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22789]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mississippi officials have taken some important first steps toward reform, ... Despite some initial progress, we have been unable to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mississippi officials have taken some important first steps toward reform, ... Despite some initial progress, we have been unable to obtain agreement on an in-court settlement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41125</guid></item></channel></rss>