<?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[They're in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37216]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river,  Making a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river,  Making a poet out of a man.   The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain--    For the reed that grows never more again     As a reed with the reeds of the river.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My figure ... never felt like an asset until I started dancing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32613]]></link><description><![CDATA[My figure ... never felt like an asset until I started dancing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were he now to do so, he would forfeit all credibility. If he now said 'Er, I'm not sure I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were he now to do so, he would forfeit all credibility. If he now said 'Er, I'm not sure I was right to do what I've done,' I think people would turn on him. He's set his hand to this particular plough, he's got to complete the furrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27664]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though no one can go back and make a brand new start my friend, anyone canstart from now and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though no one can go back and make a brand new start my friend, anyone canstart from now and make a brand new end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care;  Fashioned so slenderly,   Young and so fair! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care;  Fashioned so slenderly,   Young and so fair!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not inquire into the character of the recipient but it asks what he needs. It does not love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not inquire into the character of the recipient but it asks what he needs. It does not love him because he is such-and-such a person but because he is there. In all this it is quite the opposite of natural love: it "does not seek its own". It does not perform the characteristic natural impulse of love and life. Therefore it is basically independent of the conduct of the other person; it is not conditional but absolute. It wants nothing for itself but only for others. Therefore it is also not vulnerable. It never "reacts" but is always "spontaneous", emerging by its own strength -- rather, from the power of God. Love is the real God-likeness of man for which he has been created. In so far as love is in man he really resembles God and shows himself to be the child of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us letus down is because we believe those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21447]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us letus down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well,sorry, that's not life here on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10316]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The Lord afflicts us at times; but it is always a thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The Lord afflicts us at times; but it is always a thousand times less than we deserve, and much less than many of our fellow-creatures are suffering around us. Let us therefore pray for grace to be humble, thankful, and patient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6993</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[Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boys and the FrogsSome boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boys and the FrogsSome boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What some invent, the rest enlarge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17925]]></link><description><![CDATA[What some invent, the rest enlarge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lebanese, during their uprising, went too far, as they put in question all police regimes in the Arab world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lebanese, during their uprising, went too far, as they put in question all police regimes in the Arab world which risked to reflect badly on Syria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13968]]></link><description><![CDATA[In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60984]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those griefs burn most which gall in secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plan to selectively open stores each year in important markets in Asia, Europe and Latin America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plan to selectively open stores each year in important markets in Asia, Europe and Latin America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The alternative is to do nothing and be ignored.] Once the penalties are levied, it's a silent message unless it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40979]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The alternative is to do nothing and be ignored.] Once the penalties are levied, it's a silent message unless it's collected, ... So we make every effort to collect those outstanding penalties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[weak persons because they are new faces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41294]]></link><description><![CDATA[weak persons because they are new faces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature never says one thing, and science another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature never says one thing, and science another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17959]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45410]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is short, wear tropical shirts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is short, wear tropical shirts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the movies and the movies are us ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the movies and the movies are us]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   All angels, all saints, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   All angels, all saints, all the devils, all the world shall know all the deeds that ever thou didest, though thou have been shriven of them and contrite. But this knowledge shall be no shame to thee if that thou be saved, but rather a witness to God -- right as we read of the deeds of Mary Magdalene [as] her witness to God and not to her reproof.   ... Middle English Sermons  July 20, 2002 Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566   Our union with God -- his presence with us, in which our aloneness is banished and the meaning and full purpose of human existence is realized -- consists chiefly in a conversational relationship with God while we are each consistently and deeply engaged as his friend and colaborer in the affairs of the kingdom of the heavens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The challenge will be to get the big corporate customers giving them their business, but it might be difficult in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The challenge will be to get the big corporate customers giving them their business, but it might be difficult in reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. [Lat., In omni adversitate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57238]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. [Lat., In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much learning does not teach understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much learning does not teach understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like blinking, I do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36405]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like blinking, I do!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3144]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctrine of the blessed Trinity is a reminder of the supernaturalness of biblical Christianity. The doctrine defies rationalization, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6725]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctrine of the blessed Trinity is a reminder of the supernaturalness of biblical Christianity. The doctrine defies rationalization, yet it provides for the believer the answer to the unity and diversity of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6725</guid></item></channel></rss>