<?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[The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  He was too great for his disciples. And in view of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7780]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  He was too great for his disciples. And in view of what he plainly said, is it any wonder that all who were rich and prosperous felt a horror of strange things, a swimming of their world at his teaching? Perhaps the priests and the rich men understood him better than his followers. He was dragging out all the little private reservations they had made from social service into the light of a universal religious life. He was like some terrible moral huntsman digging mankind out of the snug burrows in which they had lived hitherto. In the white blaze of this kingdom of his there was to be no property, no privilege, no pride and precedence; no motive indeed and no reward but love. Is it any wonder that men were dazzled and blinded and cried out against him? Even his disciples cried out when he would not spare them the light. Is it any wonder that the priests realized that between this man and themselves there was no choice but that he or priestcraft should perish? Is it any wonder that the Roman soldiers, confronted and amazed by something soaring over their comprehension and threatening all their disciplines, should take refuge in wild laughter, and crown him with thorns and robe him in purple and make a mock Caesar of him? For to take him seriously was to enter upon a strange and alarming life, to abandon habits, to control instincts and impulses, to essay an incredible happiness... Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He never saw me play ball in high school. You had to rely on relationships or a friend who knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28623]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never saw me play ball in high school. You had to rely on relationships or a friend who knew of a good player in this town or that town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9502]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always written in a free, unencumbered way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37992]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24106]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34949]]></link><description><![CDATA[[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East.] The secret is out, ... There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's wounded no matter what. Just the fact that he had to campaign, and call on the people he's supposed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42138]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's wounded no matter what. Just the fact that he had to campaign, and call on the people he's supposed to be leading to bail him out, You never want to call him dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conviction of having committed a fault is its first and greatest punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conviction of having committed a fault is its first and greatest punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus we rust Life's iron chain  Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8397]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus we rust Life's iron chain  Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep,  And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind  And break the heart of stone. And every human heart that breaks,  In prison-cell or yard, Is as that broken box that gave  Its treasure to the Lord, And filled the unclean leper's house  With the scent of costliest nard. Ah! happy they whose hearts can break  And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan  And cleanse his soul from sin? How else but through a broken heart  May Lord Christ enter in?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Christ, and therefore with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Christ, and therefore with a difference, and to be able to explain, or at least to state, the reason and cause of the difference to men who see it... His preaching is essentially private conversation, and has at the back of it facts, facts of a life which explain and illustrate and enforce his words... It is such missionary work, done consciously and deliberately as missionary, that the world needs today. Everybody, Christian and pagan alike, respects such work; and, when it is so done, men wonder, and inquire into the secret of a life which they instinctively admire and covet for themselves... The spirit which inspires love of others and efforts after their well-being, both in body and soul, they cannot but admire and covet -- unless, indeed, seeing that it would reform their own lives, they dread and hate it, because they do not desire to be reformed. In either case, it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17880]]></link><description><![CDATA[And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in the contemplation of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in the contemplation of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to pay a monthly subscription. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28908]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to pay a monthly subscription.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15940]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dare to be honest and fear no labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55563]]></link><description><![CDATA[A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36772]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is whatever gives joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is whatever gives joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53112]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. [Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar,  Although one summer evening's dew could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10978]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar,  Although one summer evening's dew could fill   Its little cup twice over, ere the star    Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold,     And be no prodigal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62445]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of superterrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To every journey in life, how you begin matters much but who and what the journey makes you become in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62932]]></link><description><![CDATA[To every journey in life, how you begin matters much but who and what the journey makes you become in the end matters much more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair  It has mantled a world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to put a ding in the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to put a ding in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46409]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect. [Fr., Entre le bon sens et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect. [Fr., Entre le bon sens et le bon gout il y a la difference de la cause a son effet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4167]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action speaks louder than words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action speaks louder than words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a priority. In states where the statute calls for victims of crime to retreat, we think that that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a priority. In states where the statute calls for victims of crime to retreat, we think that that's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, it feels so good, you don't even know. I've been getting killed here for four years and this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, it feels so good, you don't even know. I've been getting killed here for four years and this is such a tough place to play. I'm just so proud of the guys the way they hung in there and fought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat may look like a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5310]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat may look like a king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're biggest expense is the money you don't make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21199]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're biggest expense is the money you don't make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21199</guid></item></channel></rss>