<?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[One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got todiscipline your life. No matter how good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22418]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got todiscipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to bewilling to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going tothe top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is great literature and great religious literature, this collection of ancient writings we call the Bible, and any translator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6344]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is great literature and great religious literature, this collection of ancient writings we call the Bible, and any translator has a deep sense of responsibility as he undertakes to transmit it to modern readers. He desires his transcript to be faithful to the meaning of the original, so far as he can reach that meaning, and also to do some justice to its literary qualities. But he is well aware that his aim often exceeds his grasp. Translation may be a fascinating task, yet no discipline is more humbling. You may be translating oracles, but soon you learn the risk and folly of posing as an oracle yourself. If your readers are dissatisfied at any point, they may be sure that the translator is still more dissatisfied, if not there, then elsewhere -- all the more so, because, in the nature of the case, he has always to appear dogmatic in print.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4237]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is ever seeking to get down to us -- to be the divine man in us. And we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8215]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is ever seeking to get down to us -- to be the divine man in us. And we are ever saying, "That be far from Thee, Lord!" We are careful, in our unbelief, over the divine dignity, of which He is too grand to think. Better pleasing to God ... is the audacity of Job, who, rushing into His presence, and flinging the door of His presence-chamber to the wall, like a troubled -- it may be angry -- but yet faithful child, calls aloud in the ear of Him whose perfect Fatherhood he has yet to learn, "Am I a sea or a whale, that Thou settest a watch over me?"... The devotion of God to His creatures is perfect; He does not think about Himself, but about them; He wants nothing for Himself, but finds His blessedness in the outgoing of blessedness. Ah! it is a terrible -- shall it be a lonely glory, this? We will draw near with our human response, our abandonment of self in the faith of Jesus. He Lives Himself to us -- shall we not give ourselves to Him? Shall we not give ourselves to each other whom He loves?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22256]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In principle, there are no problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28337]]></link><description><![CDATA[In principle, there are no problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65513]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without the least propensity to jeer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers there is safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/771]]></link><description><![CDATA[For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers there is safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27092]]></link><description><![CDATA[How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote early and vote often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vote early and vote often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And especially, especially, don't f*ck with vegans. Do not look vegans in the eye. If you get into an argument ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54702]]></link><description><![CDATA[And especially, especially, don't f*ck with vegans. Do not look vegans in the eye. If you get into an argument with a vegan, say "I'm wrong", and run away as fast as you can. Do not f*ck with vegans because they will f*ck you up... BECAUSE THEY'RE HUNGRY.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9319]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39412]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word -- definitely not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will give me a copy of the letter, I will have the foreign minister prepare a reply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29711]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will give me a copy of the letter, I will have the foreign minister prepare a reply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54758]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any one of us to talk about the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the Romans call it Stoicism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the Romans call it Stoicism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34282]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have to be unselfish. That's one concept I want them to get, but it can be a hard concept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29497]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have to be unselfish. That's one concept I want them to get, but it can be a hard concept for young players to grasp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13161]]></link><description><![CDATA[For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God: and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.  But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19442]]></link><description><![CDATA[She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21983]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your loins be girded about, and your light burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your loins be girded about, and your light burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9829]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we will not be able to reach agreements in the end, this constitution is going to be presented to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36224]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we will not be able to reach agreements in the end, this constitution is going to be presented to the Iraqis in an Oct. 15 referendum. Legally we do not need the parliament to vote on the draft, but we need only a consensus so that all the Iraqis will say yes to the constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57777]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;  The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape, give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50285]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15815]]></link><description><![CDATA[What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blossom of returning light, An April flower of sun and dew;  The earth and sky, the day and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60706]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blossom of returning light, An April flower of sun and dew;  The earth and sky, the day and night   Are melted in her depth of blue!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion!  Thou, linnet! in thy green array, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion!  Thou, linnet! in thy green array,   Presiding spirit here to-day,    Dost lead the revels of the May;     And this is thy dominion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no heresies in a dead religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19207]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no heresies in a dead religion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46055]]></link><description><![CDATA[People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46055</guid></item></channel></rss>