<?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[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[Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An alarming amount of public information is being kept secret from citizens, and the problem is increasing by the month. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29284]]></link><description><![CDATA[An alarming amount of public information is being kept secret from citizens, and the problem is increasing by the month. Not only do citizens have a right to know, they have a need to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed  A place of drear extent, before him sees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59620]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed  A place of drear extent, before him sees   A river rushing swiftly toward the deep,    And all its tossing current white with foam,     And stops and turns, and measures back his way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self - praise is no recommendation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self - praise is no recommendation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which is worse? the wolf who cries beforeeating the lamb or the wolf who does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which is worse? the wolf who cries beforeeating the lamb or the wolf who does not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3533]]></link><description><![CDATA[An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to find a deeper meaning in your life, you can't find it in the opinions or the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64014]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to find a deeper meaning in your life, you can't find it in the opinions or the beliefs that have been handed to you. You have to go to that place within yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a market with great potential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32659]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a market with great potential.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 I see the wrong that round me lies,  I feel the guilt within; I hear, with groan and travail-cries,  The world confess its sin. Yet, in the maddening maze of things,  And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings  I know that God is good!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sounds like a geography question. I'm a geography major, so you're probably talking to the right guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31289]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sounds like a geography question. I'm a geography major, so you're probably talking to the right guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4878]]></link><description><![CDATA[In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands,  We two--ach! Don't you understand?   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands,  We two--ach! Don't you understand?   Myself--und Gott.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8543]]></link><description><![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It raises scruples when we don't keep the routine. (2) It raises presumption when we do. Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been hard just getting back in the groove. I think we got in the groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been hard just getting back in the groove. I think we got in the groove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47383]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55318]]></link><description><![CDATA[What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have-for their usefulness. -Thomas Merton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nodding the head does not row the boat ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nodding the head does not row the boat]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564   It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564   It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controlled time is our true wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Controlled time is our true wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4090]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the stars are images of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the stars are images of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  We are so farre off from condemning any of their labours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  We are so farre off from condemning any of their labours that traveiled before us in this kinds, either in this land or beyond sea, ... that we acknowledge them to have been raised up of God, ... and that they deserve to be had of us and of posteritie in everlasting remembrance... Therefore blessed be they, and most honoured be their name, that breake the yce and give the onset upon that which helpeth forward to the saving of soules. Now what can be more available thereto, than to deliver Gods booke unto the Gods people in a tongue which they understand? ... So if we, building upon their foundation that went before us, and being holpen by their labours, doe endeavor to make that better which they left so good; no man, we are sure, has cause to mislike us; they, we persuade ourselves, if they were alive, would thank us. For is the Kingdom of God become words or syllables? Why should we be in bondage to them if we may be free? [Some antique spelling fixed -- Ed.].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. [Lat., Id demum est homini turpe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12520]]></link><description><![CDATA[That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. [Lat., Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42801]]></link><description><![CDATA[By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Continuing a short series on the Bible:   God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Continuing a short series on the Bible:   God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may with advantage forget what we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16486]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may with advantage forget what we know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an important meeting. It was very important to have it, but we still have a lot more work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41266]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an important meeting. It was very important to have it, but we still have a lot more work to do,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26860</guid></item></channel></rss>