<?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[I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? -The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24048]]></link><description><![CDATA[All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44025]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5994]]></link><description><![CDATA[things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed, but it is as putrefaction shines,--in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58132]]></link><description><![CDATA[These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed, but it is as putrefaction shines,--in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2155]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Larger U.S. retailers have recognized for a number of years that the domestic market is mature. In order to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Larger U.S. retailers have recognized for a number of years that the domestic market is mature. In order to grow sales, they have to look outside of the U.S.. China, however, is a big emerging opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye... -Corinthians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed  Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed  Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world,   And a wide realm of wild reality,    And dreams in their development have breath,     And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till then, good-night! You wish the time were now? And I.  You do not blush to wish it so? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till then, good-night! You wish the time were now? And I.  You do not blush to wish it so?   You would have blush'd yourself to death    To own so much a year ago.     What! both these snowy hands? ah, then      I'll have to say, Good-night again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The growth reflects how easy it has become to sell used books and to create inventory in this business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37562]]></link><description><![CDATA[The growth reflects how easy it has become to sell used books and to create inventory in this business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seize the loud, vociferous fells, and Clashing, clanging to the pavement  Hurl them from their windy tower! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seize the loud, vociferous fells, and Clashing, clanging to the pavement  Hurl them from their windy tower!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9451]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the way I play. I played that way in college. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29241]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the way I play. I played that way in college.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be no part of any body, is to be nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19068]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every event is a judgment of God. [Ger., Denn aller Ausgang ist ein Gottesurheil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23546]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every event is a judgment of God. [Ger., Denn aller Ausgang ist ein Gottesurheil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2528]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12291]]></link><description><![CDATA[What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde, And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,  There musicke with her silver sound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48955]]></link><description><![CDATA[While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde, And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,  There musicke with her silver sound,   Is wont with spede to send redresse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58596]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,  Await alike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,  Await alike th' inevitable hour,   The paths of glory lead but to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue--agree with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1937]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue--agree with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53821]]></link><description><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun,   And light the wandering out of stony ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50514]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19190]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never raise your hand to your children ð it leaves your midsection unprotected ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never raise your hand to your children ð it leaves your midsection unprotected]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had no qualms; "for", said he, "when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, 'I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7657]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had no qualms; "for", said he, "when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, 'I am used to do so; I shall never do otherwise if I am left to myself'. If I fail not, then I give God thanks, acknowledging that the strength comes from Him.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54551]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near, Like the rolling of the ocean in the eventide of fear? 'Tis the people marching on]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   This matter of "salvation" is, when seen intuitively, a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   This matter of "salvation" is, when seen intuitively, a very simple thing. But when we analyze it, it turns into a complex tangle of paradoxes. We become ourselves by dying to ourselves. We gain only what we give up, and if we give up everything we gain everything. We cannot find ourselves within ourselves, but only in others; yet at the same time, before we can go out to others we must first find ourselves. We must forget ourselves in order to become truly conscious of who we are. The best way to love ourselves is to love others; yet we cannot love others unless we love ourselves, since it is written, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." But if we love ourselves in the wrong way, we become incapable of loving anybody else. And indeed when we love ourselves wrongly, we hate ourselves; if we hate ourselves we cannot help hating others. Yet there is a sense in which we must hate others and leave them in order to find God... As for this finding of God, we cannot even look for Him unless we have already found Him, and we cannot find Him unless He has first found us. We cannot begin to seek Him without a special gift of His grace; yet if we wait for grace to move us before beginning to seek Him, we will probably never begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33680]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45275]]></link><description><![CDATA[All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9337]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59760</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></channel></rss>