<?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 "great commitment" is so much easier than the ordinary, everyday one--and can all too easily shut our hearts to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "great commitment" is so much easier than the ordinary, everyday one--and can all too easily shut our hearts to the latter. A willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice can be associated with, and even produce, a great hardness of heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most meaningful and better life is to have a relationship with GOD ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most meaningful and better life is to have a relationship with GOD]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36051]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Sunday, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Sunday, by far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56756]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41155]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20688]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down,  As Jove, descending from his tow'r ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56709]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down,  As Jove, descending from his tow'r   To court her in a silver show'r.    The wanton snow flew to her breast,     As little birds into their nest;      But o'ercome with whiteness there,       For grief dissolv'd into a tear.        Thence falling on her garment hem,         To deck her, froze into a gem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. [Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. [Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15512]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16692]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25234]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44609]]></link><description><![CDATA[To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jody helps us out a lot, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jody helps us out a lot,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod,  And sting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod,  And sting the luckless foot that presses them?   There are who in the path of social life    Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun,     And sting the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. Youmust want it with an inner exuberance that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21767]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. Youmust want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin andjoins the energy that created the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little lett lets an ill workeman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little lett lets an ill workeman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point therefore let us begin our narrative, without adding any more to what has already been said; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57912]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point therefore let us begin our narrative, without adding any more to what has already been said; for it would be foolish to lengthen the preface while cutting short the history itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This grief is crowned with consolation, you old smock brings forth a new petticoat, and indeed the tears live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18347]]></link><description><![CDATA[This grief is crowned with consolation, you old smock brings forth a new petticoat, and indeed the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Whilst you are divided betwixt God and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Whilst you are divided betwixt God and the world, you have neither the pleasures of Religion, nor the pleasures of the world, but are always in the uneasiness of a divided state of heart. You have only so much Religion as serves to disquiet you, to show you a handwriting on the wall, to interrupt your pleasures, and to appear as a death's-head at all your feasts, but not Religion enough to give you a taste and feeling of its pleasures. You dare not wholly neglect Religion, but then you take no more than is just sufficient to keep you from being a terror to yourself, and you are as loth to be very good as you are fearful to be very bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25516]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40020]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am inhabited by a cry.Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26896]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am inhabited by a cry.Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a kind of military service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a kind of military service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're articulating feelings that they don't know how to articulate yet, but a teenager can relate to that and an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35279]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're articulating feelings that they don't know how to articulate yet, but a teenager can relate to that and an adult can relate to that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very dangerous. The timing is extremely important. He's sensing that there's a failed state in Sudan and he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28236]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very dangerous. The timing is extremely important. He's sensing that there's a failed state in Sudan and he would like to extend his bases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22217]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27594]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52210]]></link><description><![CDATA[...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52210</guid></item></channel></rss>