<?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[War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47261]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters to Young Men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was perfect tennis weather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38654]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was perfect tennis weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2512]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of ways to check her story out and that's what we have been telling people. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36407]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of ways to check her story out and that's what we have been telling people. She didn't do anything wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24245]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19580]]></link><description><![CDATA[PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5429]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rapid poverty reduction requires not only high rates of economic growth but also that the benefits of this growth be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rapid poverty reduction requires not only high rates of economic growth but also that the benefits of this growth be distributed more equitably.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4611]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24321]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who complain how the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who complain how the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know it ain't easy For these thoughts here to leave meThere's no words to describe itIn French or in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11931]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know it ain't easy For these thoughts here to leave meThere's no words to describe itIn French or in EnglishWell, diamonds they fadeAnd flowers they bloomAnd I'm telling youThese feelings won't go awayThey've been knockin' me sidewaysThey've been knockin' me out latelyWhenever you come around meThese feelings won't go away They've been knockin' me sidewaysI keep thinking in a moment thatTime will take them awayBut these feelings won't go away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Frightful this is in a sense, but it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Frightful this is in a sense, but it is true, and every one who has merely some little knowledge of the human heart can verify it: there is nothing to which a man holds so desperately as to his sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no signs of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36632]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no signs of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20507]]></link><description><![CDATA[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The Center for Missing and Exploited Children] has learned a lot from the Katrina experience, ... We have people on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34699]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The Center for Missing and Exploited Children] has learned a lot from the Katrina experience, ... We have people on the ground. We have offered our center and resources to the state of Texas ... There's a good clearinghouse in Austin (and) we have offered to assist them in any way we can...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60183]]></link><description><![CDATA[In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the former. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the former.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63062]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help thy brother's boat across, and Lo! Thine own has reached the shore ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Help thy brother's boat across, and Lo! Thine own has reached the shore]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The storm passed by my shop, and I had to escape from the shower of stones, tear gas and rubber ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The storm passed by my shop, and I had to escape from the shower of stones, tear gas and rubber bullets to save my life,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay the course, light a star,Change the world where'er you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay the course, light a star,Change the world where'er you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the best sorrow in a Christian soul when his sins are loathsome and offensive unto him--a happy token ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7579]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the best sorrow in a Christian soul when his sins are loathsome and offensive unto him--a happy token that there hath not been of late in him any insensible supply of heinous offenses, because his stale sins are still his new and daily sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be airily dismissed. Many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be airily dismissed. Many otherwise intelligent people have never read with adult attention either the four Gospels or the Letters of the New Testament. When they so do, to my certain knowledge they not infrequently become converted. Indeed, I know of no adult who has seriously studied the New Testament and rejected the stories of Christ as mythical or the evidence of changed lives in the Letters as mere fabrication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2627]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61318]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61318</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[It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44384]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65289]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a tax cut would be a good thing if he has those larger ambitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41735]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a tax cut would be a good thing if he has those larger ambitions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a cop-out to say 'it was one of those things' because the players are better than that. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a cop-out to say 'it was one of those things' because the players are better than that. They are not lacking ability but today they lacked application.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60976]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the odd man out in the family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the odd man out in the family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let those love now, who never loved before, Let those who always loved, now love the more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let those love now, who never loved before, Let those who always loved, now love the more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live thus -- to cram today with eternity and not wait the next day -- the Christian has learnt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8067]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live thus -- to cram today with eternity and not wait the next day -- the Christian has learnt and continues to learn (for the Christian is always learning) from the Pattern. How did He manage to live without anxiety for the next day -- He who from the first instant of His public life, when He stepped forward as a teacher, knew how His life would end, that the next day was His crucifixion; knew this while the people exultantly hailed Him as King (ah, bitter knowledge to have at precisely that moment!); knew, when they were crying, Hosanna!, at His entry into Jerusalem, that they would cry, "Crucify Him!", and that it was to this end that He made His entry. He who bore every day the prodigious weight of this superhuman knowledge -- how did He manage to live without anxiety for the next day?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8067</guid></item></channel></rss>