<?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[Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, "Joy is not in things, it is in us.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5128]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48064]]></link><description><![CDATA[No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65396]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42926]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. -Diana Rankin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door, and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves that they are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has left a tiny exit route, which is good because in the international arena, he is seen as very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28569]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has left a tiny exit route, which is good because in the international arena, he is seen as very much a black-and-white kind of figure, with no grays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't always connect ourselves with our history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40753]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't always connect ourselves with our history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  We can reach the point where it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  We can reach the point where it becomes possible for us to recognize and understand Original Sin, that dark counter-centre of evil in our nature -- that is to say, though it is not our nature, it is of it -- that something within us which rejoices when disaster befalls the very cause we are trying to serve, or misfortune overtakes even those we love. Life in God is not an escape from this, but a way to gain full insight concerning it. It is not our depravity which forces a fictitious religious explanation upon us, but the experience of religious reality which forces the "Night Side" out into the light. It is when we stand in the righteous all-seeing light of love that we can dare to look at, admit, and consciously suffer under this something in us which wills disaster, misfortune, defeat to everything outside the sphere of our narrowest self interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he mightbe willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews couldhave Israel. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43701]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he mightbe willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews couldhave Israel. But he said Allah did not speak it in Arabicto the Arabs.spoken on the Terry Gross Show.. Arthur Hertzberg is a founder of the Jewish peace groupPeace Now and is the author of The Fate of Zionism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66347]]></link><description><![CDATA[That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him, ... does that mean we're not democratic? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28529]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him, ... does that mean we're not democratic?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34017]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see it making sense for Wal-Mart from a dollars-and-cents standpoint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see it making sense for Wal-Mart from a dollars-and-cents standpoint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and time do more than strength or passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and time do more than strength or passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He assigned it to regions more than tropical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48939]]></link><description><![CDATA[He assigned it to regions more than tropical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5694]]></link><description><![CDATA[And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a small segment complaining on their own. I spoke with a lot of Hispanic people about what's going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29097]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a small segment complaining on their own. I spoke with a lot of Hispanic people about what's going on. They want their kids integrated. They want them to learn more English.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To refuse graciously is to confer a favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15488]]></link><description><![CDATA[To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His conduct still right with his argument wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3051]]></link><description><![CDATA[His conduct still right with his argument wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long,full of adventure, full of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long,full of adventure, full of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can create our own history, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37012]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can create our own history,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou unassuming Commonplace Of Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou unassuming Commonplace Of Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39486]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sweetly solemn though comes to me over and over, I am nearer to home today than I have ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15231]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sweetly solemn though comes to me over and over, I am nearer to home today than I have ever been before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around, around, Companions all, take your ground,  And name the bell with joy profound!   Concordia is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around, around, Companions all, take your ground,  And name the bell with joy profound!   Concordia is the world we've found    Most meet to express the harmonious sound,     That calls to those in friendship bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58105]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14113]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to good conduct is never too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51198]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to good conduct is never too late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16130]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20567]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I crank out crude imitations of what's already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don't care about the difference, anyway! And what good is originality if you can't crank it out?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They ran the ball on us all game two years ago. They pretty much ran the ball on us at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37436]]></link><description><![CDATA[They ran the ball on us all game two years ago. They pretty much ran the ball on us at will. It was going downhill on us every play. It just wasn't good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11011</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[I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65361</guid></item></channel></rss>