<?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[Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole;  How here he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole;  How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug,   And suck'd all o'er like an industrious bug.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. -Henry David Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  Many a congregation when it assembles in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  Many a congregation when it assembles in church must look to the angels like a muddy, puddly shore at low tide; littered with every kind of rubbish and odds and ends --a distressing sort of spectacle. And then the tide of worship comes in, and it's all gone: the dead sea-urchins and jelly-fish, the paper and the empty cans and the nameless bits of rubbish. The cleansing sea flows over the whole lot. So we are released from a narrow, selfish outlook on the universe by a common act of worship. Our little human affairs are reduced to their proper proportion when seen over against the spaceless Majesty and Beauty of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10748]]></link><description><![CDATA["I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dress up in my costume, and I do the laundry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dress up in my costume, and I do the laundry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's grounded in an honest place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29118]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's grounded in an honest place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hear it a lot - my 14-year-old daughter loves your network. I don't watch it, but it's really for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hear it a lot - my 14-year-old daughter loves your network. I don't watch it, but it's really for her. We're trying to break that perception, because obviously our median age is not 14.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the learned and authentic fellows. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55723]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the learned and authentic fellows. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It should be very soon and maybe in the next few months. Not after that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It should be very soon and maybe in the next few months. Not after that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any combination of alcohol and gasoline is very unforgiving of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any combination of alcohol and gasoline is very unforgiving of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints   He took upon Him the flesh in which we have sinned, that by wearing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints   He took upon Him the flesh in which we have sinned, that by wearing our flesh He might forgive sins; a flesh which He shares with us by wearing it, not by sinning in it. He blotted out through death the sentence of death, that by a new creation of our race in Himself He might sweep away the penalty appointed by the former Law... For Scripture had foretold that He who is God should die; that the victory and triumph of them that trust in Him lay in the fact that He, who is immortal and cannot be overcome by death, was to die that mortals might gain eternity. (Continued tomorrow)   ... St. Hilary, On the Trinity  November 2, 2000 Feast of All Souls   In this calm assurance of safety did my soul gladly and hopefully take its rest, and feared so little the interruption of death, that death seemed only a name for eternal life. And the life of this present body was so far from seeming a burden or affliction that it was regarded as children regard their alphabets, sick men their draughts, shipwrecked sailors their swim, young men the training for their profession, future commanders their first campaign -- that is, as an endurable submission to present necessities, bearing the promise of a blissful immortality.   ... St. Hilary, On the Trinity  November 3, 2000 Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639   People make mistakes when they believe. They may even want something so badly that passion creates its own evidences. Reprehensible though these habits are, they nonetheless fall within the pale of man's general effort to conform the self to things as they are. But when a person acknowledges the deficiency of evidences and yet goes right on believing, he defends a position that is large with the elements of its own destruction. Any brand of inanity can be defended on such a principle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity and comely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity and comely love. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us are crazy in one way or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21039]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are crazy in one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64703]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot strike out in your first major-league at-bat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41868]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot strike out in your first major-league at-bat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lion in LoveA lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion in LoveA lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit upon this expedient to rid himself of his importunities. He expressed his willingness to accept the Lion as the suitor of his daughter on one condition: that he should allow him to extract his teeth, and cut off his claws, as his daughter was fearfully afraid of both. The Lion cheerfully assented to the proposal. But when the toothless, clawless Lion returned to repeat his request, the Woodman, no longer afraid, set upon him with his club, and drove him away into the forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our similarities are different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our similarities are different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18560]]></link><description><![CDATA[My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6750]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It reflects the very nature that we're changing directions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34895]]></link><description><![CDATA[It reflects the very nature that we're changing directions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pampered menial drove me from the door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3929]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pampered menial drove me from the door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere That gems the starry girdle of the year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57826]]></link><description><![CDATA[In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere That gems the starry girdle of the year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been introducing them to adults for 30 years. It's not that it's not for kids, but the idea that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33849]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been introducing them to adults for 30 years. It's not that it's not for kids, but the idea that they're only for kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25330]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned something from every fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned something from every fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything can be improved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything can be improved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11064]]></link><description><![CDATA[We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independent presses and bookstores give access to literature specific to a place. Readers can find stories they need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Independent presses and bookstores give access to literature specific to a place. Readers can find stories they need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very important protest, with thousands and thousands of citizens defending their freedom ... they are not going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29317]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very important protest, with thousands and thousands of citizens defending their freedom ... they are not going to give in to the persecution to which they are subjected,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59229]]></link><description><![CDATA[All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The splendor of the rose and the whitness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The splendor of the rose and the whitness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its lovliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24898]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688   Christians are like the flowers in a garden, that have each of them the dew of Heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20612]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are spending to rebuild their lives, even if they don't have a job or have lost their home. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36030]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are spending to rebuild their lives, even if they don't have a job or have lost their home. I thought we would have seen quite a slowdown. But people are apparently trying to keep as much of their lifestyles as they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It seemed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It seemed as if anyone could do better than I did. In every part I was worse than in the one before, and even my mother admitted that it would be a mercy if gestures could be dispensed with entirely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  Whoso goes seeking God and seeking aught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  Whoso goes seeking God and seeking aught with God does not find God; but he who seeks God by himself in truth does not find God alone: all God affords he finds, as well as God. Art thou looking for God, seeking God with a view to thy personal good, thy personal profit? Then in truth thou art not seeking God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13561</guid></item></channel></rss>