<?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[A man of pleasure is a man of pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45376]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of pleasure is a man of pains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government of Chinahas become likeUK and US a pirateof innocent kidnappedpharmaceutically abused primates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government of Chinahas become likeUK and US a pirateof innocent kidnappedpharmaceutically abused primates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20929</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[Only the mediocre are always at their best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the mediocre are always at their best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never professed to be anything but an average student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never professed to be anything but an average student.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24231]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from them arise most of the old ‘philosophical’ fights and arguments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1002]]></link><description><![CDATA[As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   Eternal life is not an unending continuance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   Eternal life is not an unending continuance of this life--that would, perhaps, be Hell--but Eternal Life is quite a different life, divine, not mundane; perfect, not earthly; true life, not corrupt half-life. We cannot form a conception of Eternal Life. What we imagine is ever simply of the earth, temporal, worldly. Nor could we know anything about our eternal life if it had not appeared in Jesus Christ. In him we realize that we were created for the eternal life. If we ask, what is this eternal life? what sense is there in thinking about it if we can have no conception of it?, the answer is, "It is life with God, in God, from God; life in perfect fellowship." Therefore it is a life in love, it is love itself. It is a life without the nature of death and sin, hence without sorrow, pain, anxiety, care, misery. To know this suffices to make one rejoice in eternal life. If there were no eternal life, this life of time would be without meaning, goal, or purpose, without significance, without seriousness and without joy. It would be nothing. That our life does not end in nothing, but that eternal life awaits us, is the glad message of Jesus Christ. He came to give us this promise as a light in this dark world. A Christian is a man who has become certain of eternal life through Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888  Much of today's Christianity is almost completely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888  Much of today's Christianity is almost completely earthbound, and the words of Jesus about what follows this life are scarcely studied at all. This, I believe, is partly due to man's enormous technical successes, which make him feel master of the human situation. But it is also partly due to our scholars and experts. By the time they have finished with their dissection of the New Testament and with their explaining away as "myth" all that they find disquieting or unacceptable to the modern mind, the Christian way of life is little more than humanism with a slight tinge of religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19512]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So hungry I could eat a horse ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20142]]></link><description><![CDATA[So hungry I could eat a horse]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54198]]></link><description><![CDATA[True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63919]]></link><description><![CDATA[A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What turned this case, what led them to arrest Lisa were statements from Tim Holland. When we get a chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29209]]></link><description><![CDATA[What turned this case, what led them to arrest Lisa were statements from Tim Holland. When we get a chance to present our information, I think you'll see he's not a credible source.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 It's true we cannot reach Christ's forti'th day Yet to go part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 It's true we cannot reach Christ's forti'th day Yet to go part of that religious way   Is better than to rest: We cannot reach our Savior's purity; Yet we are bid, 'Be holy ev'n as He':   In both let's do our best. Who goeth in the way which Christ hath gone Is much more sure to meet with Him than one   That traveleth by-ways; Perhaps my God, though He be far before,  May turn, and take me by the hand, and more,   May strengthen my decays. Yet, Lord, instruct us to improve our fast By starving sin, and taking such repast   As may our faults control; That ev'ry man may revel at his door, Not in his parlor -- banquetting the poor,   And among those, his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Trials ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19397]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15156]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60075]]></link><description><![CDATA[FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning . . . is but the low mimic of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning . . . is but the low mimic of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  Christ became ever more and more painfully convinced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  Christ became ever more and more painfully convinced that men did not know God. They can't, He said, or they could not live as they are doing. Some of them are so anxious and worried, with all God's care and strength and love to lean against! They cannot know of it, and be so fidgety and nervous as they are. Some of them are afraid. Their consciences have drawn so grim a picture of Him that fearfully they shrink out of His presence, wish there were not God! Frightened of God, with His free and full and eager forgiveness, with His incredible generosity, with His compassionate heart that nobody can sour into illwill, do what he may. And even the best of them are not quite sure. Their faith at most is but a timorous hope, and a trembling perhaps; no more. Often in the Synagogue He had watched them sobbing out their penitential psalms and begging God to turn from anger and be gracious toward them... And it amazed Christ. Look at His sun, He cries, how it streams down in all its midday fullness on the most unworthy, and at the rain, how it falls healingly upon the fields of the least grateful, and how He keeps thrusting His benefits and blessings into the most soiled hands, loading the most impossible people with His kindnesses. If only I could make them see God as He really is: if only they could realize that He is their Father, that what their own child is to them, that, and far more, each of them is to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The throne of another is not stable for thee. [Lat., Alieno in loco  Haud stabile regnum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The throne of another is not stable for thee. [Lat., Alieno in loco  Haud stabile regnum est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good service is a great inchantment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good service is a great inchantment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   For all the vigour of his polemic, St. Paul does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   For all the vigour of his polemic, St. Paul does not content himself with the denunciation of error, but finds the best defense against its insidious approaches in a closer adherence to the love of God and faith in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear it is not a magic bullet in post-conviction cases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are in some brown study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58040]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are in some brown study.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51052]]></link><description><![CDATA[A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49348]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24811]]></link><description><![CDATA[To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is the shell of the soul, and dress the husk of that shell; but the husk often tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is the shell of the soul, and dress the husk of that shell; but the husk often tells what the kernel is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54241]]></link><description><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.  Majestic silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3023]]></link><description><![CDATA[No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.  Majestic silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3023</guid></item></channel></rss>