<?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[. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60333]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Horse AN ASS besought a Horse to spare him a small portion of his feed. Yes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Horse AN ASS besought a Horse to spare him a small portion of his feed. Yes, said the Horse; if any remains out of what I am noweating I will give it you for the sake of my own superiordignity, and if you will come when I reach my own stall in theevening, I will give you a little sack full of barley. The Assreplied, Thank you. But I can't think that you, who refuse me alittle matter now. will by and by confer on me a greaterbenefit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52834]]></link><description><![CDATA[To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't stand accessories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't stand accessories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19518]]></link><description><![CDATA[They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beggarly people, A church and no steeple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8681]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Clinton Administration has seemed to put more concern on scoring political points than advancing serious reform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Clinton Administration has seemed to put more concern on scoring political points than advancing serious reform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53992]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young Apollo, golden haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,  Magnificently unprepared   For the long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62571]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young Apollo, golden haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,  Magnificently unprepared   For the long littleness of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890   In the first ages, [catechizing] was a work of long time; months, sometimes years, were devoted to the arduous task of disabusing the mind of the incipient Christian of its pagan errors, and of moulding it upon the Christian faith. The Scriptures indeed were at hand for the study of those who could avail themselves of them, but St. Iranaeus does not hesitate to speak of whole races who had been converted to Christianity, without being able to read them. To be unable to read or write was in those times no evidence of want of learning; the hermits of the deserts were, in one sense of the word, illiterate, yet the great St. Anthony, though he knew not letters, was a match in disputation for the learned philosophers who came to try him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63412]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a series on God and the human condition:  Those old Greek gods are not just poetry and legend. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a series on God and the human condition:  Those old Greek gods are not just poetry and legend. In them the Ancients personified living realities -- intelligence, beauty, love, or lust, which are still at work in our hearts, and which fashion our persons. The language they speak is that of image and myth, which touches the person much more directly than the explicit language of science and the intellectual dialectic of the modern world. It is also the language of the Bible, of the parables of Christ, which the rationalist of today finds it so difficult to understand, of the Word of God which demands of us not a discussion but a personal decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., Consilia qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., Consilia qui dant prava cautis hominibus,  Et perdunt operam et deridentur tupiter.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for Himself is love: and it is the greatest thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for Himself is love: and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the Law. It does the work of all the graces without any instrument but its own immediate virtue. For as the love of sin makes a man sin against all his own reason, and all the discourses of wisdom, and all the advices of his friends, and without temptation and without opportunity, so does the love of God: it makes a man chaste without the laborious arts of fasting and exterior disciplines, temperate in the midst of feasts, and is active enough to choose it without any intermedial appetites, and reaches at glory through the very heart of grace, without any other aims but those of love. It is a grace that loves God for Himself, and our neighbors for God. The consideration of God's goodness and bounty, the experience of those profitable and excellent emanations from Him, may be, and most commonly are, the first motive of our love; but when we are once entered, and have tasted the goodness of God, we love the spring for its own excellency, passing from passion to reason, from thanking to adoring, from sense to spirit, from considering ourselves to union with God: and this is the image and little representation of heaven; it is beatitude in picture, or rather the infancy and beginning of glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18405]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wiser to find out than to suppose ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22898]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wiser to find out than to suppose]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8952]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a master and servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a master and servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24923]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you're not at your best, but all that matters is two points. This was a perfect example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you're not at your best, but all that matters is two points. This was a perfect example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss not the discourse of the elders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss not the discourse of the elders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2520]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. [Lat., Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. [Lat., Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima veris.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  I do not wish to imply that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  I do not wish to imply that God the Son could not, absolutely speaking, have become incarnate by a non-virginal conception, any more than I should wish to deny that God might, absolutely speaking, have redeemed mankind without becoming incarnate at all; it is always unwise to place limits to the power of God. What we can see is that both an incarnation and a virginal conception were thoroughly appropriate to the needs and circumstances of the case and were more "natural", in the sense of more appropriate, than the alternatives... In practice, denial of the virginal conception or inability to see its relevance almost always goes with an inadequate understanding of the Incarnation and of the Christian religion in general.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think she'll be excited when she gets the 3,000. But, seriously, I think it's awesome that she's doing that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think she'll be excited when she gets the 3,000. But, seriously, I think it's awesome that she's doing that. For your coach to do something like that to make our senior day special, I am just really thankful that she would go out on a limb to do something like that. When she told the team, I was really surprised and kind of shocked but it just shows the kind of person she is and we really appreciate what she's doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billy Idol called -- he wants his look back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Billy Idol called -- he wants his look back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the gallant fisher's life, It is the best of any  'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the gallant fisher's life, It is the best of any  'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,   And 'tis beloved of many.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every board member should have the right to stand up and vote the way they believe in. Just because the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every board member should have the right to stand up and vote the way they believe in. Just because the board is not voting 5-0 doesn't mean it's dysfunctional.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The obscenities of recent days may well be designed toundermine the peace process. They must not be allowed to doso, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The obscenities of recent days may well be designed toundermine the peace process. They must not be allowed to doso,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14948]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/502</guid></item></channel></rss>