<?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 general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51989]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christianity should happen to be true -- that is to say, if its God is the real God of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7552]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christianity should happen to be true -- that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe -- then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything. Things can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is false, but nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is true. [All] things not only may have something to do with the Christian God, but must have something to do with Him if He lives and reigns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The specter of war, at least until the 19th of April, seems to have gone away. Until then, the cease-fire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The specter of war, at least until the 19th of April, seems to have gone away. Until then, the cease-fire is bound to hold. But while smiling at each other, both sides will continue making preparations for war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My creed is that:/ Happiness is the only good./ The place to be happy ishere./ The time to be happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21645]]></link><description><![CDATA[My creed is that:/ Happiness is the only good./ The place to be happy ishere./ The time to be happy is now./ The way to be happy is to make othersso.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just saying it will be one of the tallest buildings in Orlando. We're not looking to get into a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30956]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just saying it will be one of the tallest buildings in Orlando. We're not looking to get into a competition over who can build the biggest yacht, so to speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be loved, be lovable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25924]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be loved, be lovable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us. It is in proportion, as we are known to him that we find our real being and identity in Christ. We know him in and through ourselves in so far as his truth is the source of our being and his merciful love is the very heart of our life and existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to stay out than get out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to stay out than get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5520]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65363]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick enough, if good enough. [Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick enough, if good enough. [Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is the great lost and found department. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is the great lost and found department.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go pretty rose, go to my fair, Go tell her all I fain would dare,  Tell her of hope; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go pretty rose, go to my fair, Go tell her all I fain would dare,  Tell her of hope; tell her of spring,   Tell her of all I fain would sing,    Oh! were I like thee, so fair a thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You had a player that wants to be here, agents that were dealmakers and you had a club that wants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34682]]></link><description><![CDATA[You had a player that wants to be here, agents that were dealmakers and you had a club that wants to keep the player, ... When you have all those things working for you, you can figure out a way to make a deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;  An' what he thought 'e ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46641]]></link><description><![CDATA[When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;  An' what he thought 'e might require,   'E went an' took--the same as me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15303]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life goal was for me to reach out to the needy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37956]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life goal was for me to reach out to the needy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were inadvertently sending a message to the public that they were not welcome. We do want everyone in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34140]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were inadvertently sending a message to the public that they were not welcome. We do want everyone in the museum and we want to create a comfortable place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear and forbear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bear and forbear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray, Mr. Abernethy, what is a cure for gout?' was the question of an indolent and luxurious citizen. 'Live upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray, Mr. Abernethy, what is a cure for gout?' was the question of an indolent and luxurious citizen. 'Live upon sixpence a day - and earn it,' was the cogent reply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable  As the dog Jew did utter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6173]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable  As the dog Jew did utter in the streets:   'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!    Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62131]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work,  And tools to work withal, for those who will;   And blessed are the horny hand of toil!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The celebration of unbounded individualism means, beyond some point, the acceptance of force- either private (crime, riot, vigilanteism) or public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The celebration of unbounded individualism means, beyond some point, the acceptance of force- either private (crime, riot, vigilanteism) or public (authoritarianism).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond the Alps lies Italy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beyond the Alps lies Italy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51522]]></link><description><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46120]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before high school I really wanted to play basketball and play in the NBA and all of that stuff. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before high school I really wanted to play basketball and play in the NBA and all of that stuff. I still miss it. Once I saw that baseball could maybe take me somewhere, I decided to pursue it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They didn't know if he was going to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33866]]></link><description><![CDATA[They didn't know if he was going to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got some shots on goal, not a lot of quality chances. It's one of those games where the team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32835]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got some shots on goal, not a lot of quality chances. It's one of those games where the team hangs in there. Their goaltender gives them a chance to win the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a terrible way to lose. You get down 5-4 with a minute left and score a goal. That's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33512]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a terrible way to lose. You get down 5-4 with a minute left and score a goal. That's a good way to get a point but a bad way to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64951]]></link><description><![CDATA[All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that when we don't shoot the ball well, we stop working hard. And tonight we didn't make anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31303]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that when we don't shoot the ball well, we stop working hard. And tonight we didn't make anything and I think we get discouraged and didn't play as hard on defense. That's a heart issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31303</guid></item></channel></rss>