<?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[Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns  Into a royal court with green ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns  Into a royal court with green festoons   The banks of dark lagoons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11863]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19439]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. [Lat., De vitiis nostris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. [Lat., De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa calcamus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave.  I see the Rhine in his native ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave.  I see the Rhine in his native wild   Is still a mighty mountain child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While he who walks in love may wander far, But God will bring him where the Blessed are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4878]]></link><description><![CDATA[In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have a young, mid-20s girl here who was the daughter of the owner, and another gentleman who just immigrated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29716]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have a young, mid-20s girl here who was the daughter of the owner, and another gentleman who just immigrated here and was trying to work two jobs to save enough money to bring his family here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61610]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12789]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thorn in the flesh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thorn in the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This issue has caused so much negative publicity. No matter which way the vote comes out, we are anxious to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37766]]></link><description><![CDATA[This issue has caused so much negative publicity. No matter which way the vote comes out, we are anxious to move forward with our image campaign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27000]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are still awaiting the results of the audit from the provinces which we have selected randomly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34835]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are still awaiting the results of the audit from the provinces which we have selected randomly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had quite a few vehicles slide off the highway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30796]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had quite a few vehicles slide off the highway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to focus on defense and once our defense got going, it helped us click on offense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39442]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to focus on defense and once our defense got going, it helped us click on offense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19433]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 Continuing a short series on authenticity:   There is one growing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 Continuing a short series on authenticity:   There is one growing persuasion of the present age which I hope this book may somewhat serve to stem -- not by any argument, but by... a healthy up stirring ... of the imagination and the conscience. In these days, when men are so gladly hearing afresh that "in Him there is no darkness at all"; that God, therefore could not have created any man if He knew that he must live in torture to all eternity; and that His hatred to evil cannot be expressed by injustice, itself the one essence of evil, -- for certainly it would be nothing less than injustice to punish infinitely what was finitely committed, no sinner being capable of understanding the abstract enormity of what he does, -- in these days has a arisen another falsehood, less, yet very perilous: thousands of half-thinkers imagine that, since it is declared with such authority that hell is not everlasting, there is then no hell at all. To such folly, I, for one, have never given enticement or shelter. I see no hope for many, no way for the divine love to reach them, save through a very ghastly hell. Men have got to repent; there is no other escape for them, and no escape from that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,  Viewed his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13093]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,  Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart,   And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a variety of intelligence and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1684]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a variety of intelligence and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this year. We've learned lessons from Iraq and we're getting improved intelligence from the Afghan people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47587]]></link><description><![CDATA[People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the living, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the living, and rest for the dead!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical and religious dry-rot of the modern world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical and religious dry-rot of the modern world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burdensome detail of little things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon,  And please myself with, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45568]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon,  And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout? [Fr., Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'ame des devots?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout? [Fr., Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'ame des devots?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20869]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is far more often a shield than a lance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is far more often a shield than a lance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45514]]></link><description><![CDATA[As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the web of relationships that is called community. . -Dawna Markova.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27700]]></link><description><![CDATA[They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42313]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars damage the civilian society as muchas they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars damage the civilian society as muchas they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66340]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People see the world not as it is, but as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14529]]></link><description><![CDATA[People see the world not as it is, but as they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold;  Be not too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold;  Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess   That the defect; better the more than less;    Better like Hector in the field to die,     Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did have a very solid fall, which is a little bit unusual. A couple years ago, we had a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30882]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did have a very solid fall, which is a little bit unusual. A couple years ago, we had a real good fall, and that was the year when we had a very good team. So I'm hoping this is a good sign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  As a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy has failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. It is the only power in the world that seems to overcome the so-called "laws of nature"; the occasions on which prayer has dramatically done this have been termed "miracles". But a constant, quieter miracle takes place hourly in the hearts of men and women who have discovered that prayer supplies them with a steady flow of sustaining power in their daily lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55690]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45695</guid></item></channel></rss>