<?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[Every crisis offers you extra desired power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4908]]></link><description><![CDATA[No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wanted to hear from everyone, no matter what they have to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33290]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wanted to hear from everyone, no matter what they have to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54365]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's quite hearty in the environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41841]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's quite hearty in the environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5768]]></link><description><![CDATA[If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;  Or on wide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;  Or on wide waving wings expanded bear   The flying chariot through the fields of air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11569]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A terrorist who wants to do great damage will therefore not find anything in the article that is likely to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30737]]></link><description><![CDATA[A terrorist who wants to do great damage will therefore not find anything in the article that is likely to increase his or her certainty concerning the minimum level of toxin to use,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a once in a lifetime thing to ride across the country, and he's doing it for a good reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30838]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a once in a lifetime thing to ride across the country, and he's doing it for a good reason -- for Habitat. We're happy for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without music would be a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without music would be a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6863]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved... Another way of putting this is to say that the churches operate with secular values while the secular institutions are permeated with religious terminology... An objective observer is hard put to tell the difference (at least in terms of values affirmed) between the church members and those who maintain an 'unchurched' status. Usually the most that can be said is that the church members hold the same values as everybody else, but with more emphatic solemnity. Thus, church membership in no way means adherence to a set of values at variance with those of the general society; rather, it means a stronger and more explicitly religious affirmation of the same values held by the community at large.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you a shovel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you a shovel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor and glory are indeed due to God and to Him alone, but He will accept neither of them if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor and glory are indeed due to God and to Him alone, but He will accept neither of them if they be not preserved in the honey of love. Love is sufficient of itself; it pleases by itself and on its own account. Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit. It is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love that I may love. Love is a great thing provided it recurs to its beginning, returns to its origin, and draws always from that Fountain which is perpetually in flood. Of all the feelings and affections of the soul, love is the only one by which the creature, though not on equal terms, is able to respond to the Creator and to repay what it has received from Him. For when God loves us He desires nothing but to be loved. He loves for no other reason, indeed, than that He may be loved, knowing that by their love itself those who love Him are blessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  I have often, on my knees, been shocked to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  I have often, on my knees, been shocked to find what sort of thoughts I have, for a moment, been addressing to God; what infantile placations I was really offering, what claims I have really made, even what absurd adjustments or compromises I was, half-consciously, proposing. There is a Pagan, savage heart in me somewhere. For unfortunately the folly and idiot-cunning of Paganism seem to have far more power of surviving than its innocent or even beautiful elements. It is easy, once you have power, to silence the pipes, still the dances, disfigure the statues, and forget the stories; but not easy to kill the savage, the greedy, frightened creature now cringing, now blustering in one's soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8021]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/296]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107   Grace is the incomprehensible fact that God is well pleased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107   Grace is the incomprehensible fact that God is well pleased with a man, and that a man can rejoice in God. Only when grace is recognized to be incomprehensible is it grace. Grace exists, therefore, only where the Resurrection is reflected. Grace is the gift of Christ, who exposes the gulf which separates God and man, and, by exposing it, bridges it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was frustrating because I didn't know how he died. I felt it was a suspicious death, the way he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41893]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was frustrating because I didn't know how he died. I felt it was a suspicious death, the way he fell down. The TV in his room was knocked off its stand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44149]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15904]]></link><description><![CDATA[A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14587]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21197]]></link><description><![CDATA[They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63912]]></link><description><![CDATA[By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children have more need of models than of critics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children have more need of models than of critics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam  Like islands on a dark blue sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam  Like islands on a dark blue sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They knocked out the roof in three hours. They knew what they were doing. That's God's miracle; he filled the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30024]]></link><description><![CDATA[They knocked out the roof in three hours. They knew what they were doing. That's God's miracle; he filled the need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46596]]></link><description><![CDATA[You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46596</guid></item></channel></rss>