<?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[Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Independence Day with President ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Independence Day with President Clinton]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  We of the churches often gather our robes away from contamination, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  We of the churches often gather our robes away from contamination, and thank God that we are not as other men. We don't despise God's name; in fact, we call upon it constantly to justify ourselves... If we object to meat-eating, we declare that God is vegetarian; if we abhor war, we proclaim a pacifist Deity. He who turned water into wine to gladden a wedding it now accused by many of favouring that abominable fluid grape juice. There can hardly be a more evil way of taking God's name in vain than this way of presuming to speak in it. For here is spiritual pride, the ultimate sin, in action -- the sin of believing in one's own righteousness. The true prophet says humbly, "To me, a sinful man, God spoke." But the scribes and Pharisees declare, "When we speak, God agrees." They feel no need of a special revelation, for they are always, in their own view, infallible. It is this self-righteousness of the pious that most breeds atheism, by inspiring all decent, ordinary men with loathing of the enormous lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taste cannot be controlled by law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taste cannot be controlled by law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistle, and she'll come to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whistle, and she'll come to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love;  Brothers in peace, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60139]]></link><description><![CDATA[There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love;  Brothers in peace, not rivals in command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremelywell, without attending to appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremelywell, without attending to appearance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's certainly an honor. When I got the call I didn't sure how to react, to tell you the truth. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36482]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's certainly an honor. When I got the call I didn't sure how to react, to tell you the truth. It wasn't until my wife's gynecologist called and congratulated me that I figured we were onto something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7489]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Christ what we have and what we are. If, just as we are, we would lay ourselves on the altar of service of Jesus Christ, there is no saying what Christ could do with us and through us. We may be sorry and embarrassed that we have not more to bring -- and rightly so; but that is not reason for failing or refusing to bring what we have and what we are. Little is always much in the hands of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12473]]></link><description><![CDATA[First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was adored once too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1620]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was adored once too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is that it stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is that it stops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23936]]></link><description><![CDATA[How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7461]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service -- just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon, ... This mission will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34588]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon, ... This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens ... our youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. -Vaclav Havel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a confused heap of facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19449]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a confused heap of facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultures contain many cues and inducements to dissuade the individual from approaching ultimate limits, in much the same way that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultures contain many cues and inducements to dissuade the individual from approaching ultimate limits, in much the same way that a special warning strip of land around the edge of a baseball field lets a player know that he is about to run into a concrete wall when he is preoccupied with catching the ball. The wider that strip of land and the more sensitive the player is to the changing composition of the ground under his feet as he pursues the ball, the more effective the warning. Romanticizing or lionizing as "individualistic" those people who disregard social cues and inducements increases the danger of head-on collisions with inherent social limits. Decrying various forms of social disapproval is in effect narrowing the warning strip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detroit is doing a great job pulling all the elements together. It's our version of the Winter Olympics, and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Detroit is doing a great job pulling all the elements together. It's our version of the Winter Olympics, and it is a Winter Olympics year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45514]]></link><description><![CDATA[As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the web of relationships that is called community. . -Dawna Markova.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16004]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19444]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13046]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65949]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the days that's in the week, I dearly love but one day,  And that's the day that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the days that's in the week, I dearly love but one day,  And that's the day that comes betwixt   A Saturday and Monday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is properly no history; only biography ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4215]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is properly no history; only biography]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Presents," I often say, endear Absents." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17444]]></link><description><![CDATA["Presents," I often say, endear Absents."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5402</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[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54974]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir Thomas Browne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is the first day of the rest of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is the first day of the rest of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64525]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22859</guid></item></channel></rss>