<?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[At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;  Smiles by his cheerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19623]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;  Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys   His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze;    While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard,     Displays her cleanly platter on the board.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using a private contractor and outside advisory team will help expedite the process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Using a private contractor and outside advisory team will help expedite the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're often so blind. Our demand for the credentialed so colors our perception of believeability, that we wouldn't recognize God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46084]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're often so blind. Our demand for the credentialed so colors our perception of believeability, that we wouldn't recognize God if he appeared within us. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world itself is too small for the covetous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51199]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world itself is too small for the covetous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was done with everything but the project when I was about 14 years old. I just didn't get around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28399]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was done with everything but the project when I was about 14 years old. I just didn't get around to finishing up until this project came along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3046]]></link><description><![CDATA[A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13228]]></link><description><![CDATA[You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23924]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  He has loved us without being loved... We are bound to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  He has loved us without being loved... We are bound to Him, and not He to us, because before He was loved, He loved us... There it is, then: we cannot... love Him with this first love. Yet I say that God demands of us, that as He has loved us without any second thoughts, so He should be loved by us. In what way can we do this, then? ... I tell you, through a means which he has established, by which we can love Him freely; ... that is, we can be useful, not to Him -- which is impossible -- but to our neighbor... To show the love that we have for Him, we ought to serve and love every rational creature and extend our charity to good and bad -- as much to one who does us ill service and criticizes us as to one who serves us. For, His charity extends over just men and sinners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200   It was my generation, and the generation that preceded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200   It was my generation, and the generation that preceded me, that forgot. The younger generation is not primarily to be blamed. Those who are struggling today, those who are far away and doing that which is completely contrary to the Christian conscience, are not first to be blamed. It is my generation, and the generation that preceded me, who turned away. Today we are left, not only with a religion and a church without meaning, but... with a culture without meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fact is like a sack --it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fact is like a sack --it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgement despite collective disapproval.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be,  Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12658]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be,  Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound,   And curs of low degree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34</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[Reality is for people who can't face drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is for people who can't face drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44349]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to get caught up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to get caught up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess is it's not going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54666]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64005]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31155]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rugged the breast that music cannot tame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rugged the breast that music cannot tame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33568]]></link><description><![CDATA[My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river,  For men may come and men may go, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4927]]></link><description><![CDATA[I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river,  For men may come and men may go,   But I go on forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24206]]></link><description><![CDATA[no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement has been dynamic; it confines men within its limits, while the movement had liberated them from the bondage of institutions; it looks to the past, [although] the movement had pointed forward. Though in content the institution resembles the dynamic epoch whence it proceeded, in spirit it is like the [state] before the revolution. So the Christian church, after the early period, often seemed more closely related in attitude to the Jewish synagogue and the Roman state than to the age of Christ and his apostles; its creed was often more like a system of philosophy than like the living gospel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in the midst of it without worldly tempers, who comply with their share in the offices of human life without complying with the spirit that reigneth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5485]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet letters of the angel tongue, I've loved ye long and well,  And never have failed in your fragrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet letters of the angel tongue, I've loved ye long and well,  And never have failed in your fragrance sweet   To find some secret spell,--    A charm that has bound me with witching power,     For mine is the old belief,      That midst your sweets and midst your bloom,       There's a soul in every leaf!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,  This many summers in a sea of glory, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,  This many summers in a sea of glory,   But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride    At length broke under me, and now has left me,     Weary and old with service, to the mercy      Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[He also enjoys sharing the stage with] American Idol ... You know, she was thrown into a role that most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29125]]></link><description><![CDATA[[He also enjoys sharing the stage with] American Idol ... You know, she was thrown into a role that most musical theater actresses wait a lifetime to play because it's such a huge role. She handled it like a gem. I mean, she's got a set of pipes that you won't believe when you hear her. And she's got a real warmth and accessibility to the audience that allows the audience into the show. It's a very difficult thing to have. You either have that or you don't, and she's got it big-time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12096]]></link><description><![CDATA[But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am no longer a curmudgeon.I am a curmudgeon emeritus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20113]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am no longer a curmudgeon.I am a curmudgeon emeritus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20113</guid></item></channel></rss>