<?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[...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something out of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52008]]></link><description><![CDATA[...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something out of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. Stipendiary clergy cut off by training and life from that common experience are constantly struggling to get close to the laity by wearing lay clothing, sharing in lay amusements, and organizing lay clubs; but they never quite succeed. To get close to men, it is necessary really to share their experience, and to share their experience is to share it by being in it, not merely to come as near to it as possible without being in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Steal immortal blessings from her lips; who,even in pure and vestal modesty, still blush, as thinking their own kisses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23847]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Steal immortal blessings from her lips; who,even in pure and vestal modesty, still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55864]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice, Perseverance, and Patience-Win always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice, Perseverance, and Patience-Win always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an area is disturbed, it upsets the natural balance and creates an ecological open space that gives non-natives a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28174]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an area is disturbed, it upsets the natural balance and creates an ecological open space that gives non-natives a foothold, ... Another thing is that Florida is not very species-diverse, so there are more options for invasion because there aren't many native species.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple is the language of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple is the language of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is like an endless sea. We can't know everything in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is like an endless sea. We can't know everything in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60552]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finality is not the language of politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finality is not the language of politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63367]]></link><description><![CDATA[If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (the kidnappers) were terrorists from the south. We have not identified their specific group . . . We have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34266]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (the kidnappers) were terrorists from the south. We have not identified their specific group . . . We have launched pursuit operations,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions. It does require bilateral discussions with another country, but we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions. It does require bilateral discussions with another country, but we're cautiously looking at being there by the fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63757]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo.. were war criminalsinterviews recorded in the movie The Fogof War.. (the firebombing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10223]]></link><description><![CDATA[All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo.. were war criminalsinterviews recorded in the movie The Fogof War.. (the firebombing of Tokyo occurred before the atom bombs..100,000 civilians died in one night from American bombs..500,000 altogether over several days say some).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb.  Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears.   Who then to frail mortality shall trust,    But limns the water, or but writes in dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3070]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. Joy is simply perfect acquiescence in God's will, because the soul delights itself in God himself... rejoice in the will of God, and in nothing else. Bow down your heads and your hearts before God, and let the will, the blessed will of God, be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a ragout, first catch your hare. [Fr., Poure faire un civet, prenez un lievre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10130]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a ragout, first catch your hare. [Fr., Poure faire un civet, prenez un lievre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poemThe Cotter’s Saturday Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poemThe Cotter’s Saturday Night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are coming back that haven't been in years. It's like moths to a flame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29136]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are coming back that haven't been in years. It's like moths to a flame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't ask, you don't get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1352]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't ask, you don't get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong. [Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong. [Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning and average players are in great demand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning and average players are in great demand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664  A man may be haunted with doubts, and only grow thereby in faith. Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood... Doubt must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24666]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there:  Then looking up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there:  Then looking up and round the prospect wide,   When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me  Thy memory, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me  Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood   For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea    Of grass that waves around thee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice experienced in the UK population and that seems to be true pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice experienced in the UK population and that seems to be true pretty much across gender, ethnicity and religion -- people of all types experience it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24318]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauteous pansies rise In purple, gold, and blue,  With tints of rainbow hue   Mocking the sunset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauteous pansies rise In purple, gold, and blue,  With tints of rainbow hue   Mocking the sunset skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  Other sins find their vent in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2324]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53977</guid></item></channel></rss>