<?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["Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62107]]></link><description><![CDATA["Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9166]]></link><description><![CDATA[For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart -- then no problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birmingham is participating in a national programme of commemorations to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birmingham is participating in a national programme of commemorations to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a hopeful cynic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10967]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a hopeful cynic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to livehappily, and to be at peace with his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21944]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to livehappily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11270]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a very nice (Grey Cup) ring; lots of diamonds, quality diamonds, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38881]]></link><description><![CDATA[a very nice (Grey Cup) ring; lots of diamonds, quality diamonds, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think in my heart of hearts that had a big bearing on it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think in my heart of hearts that had a big bearing on it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we are praying for. If we are whimpering, and sniveling, and begging to be spared the discipline of life that is sent to knock some smatterings of manhood into us, the answer to that prayer may never come at all. Thank God! Though, indeed, it is not easy to say that, with honesty. Still, it may never come at all, thank God. But if you have attained as far as Epictetus--pagan though you would call him--whose daily prayer was this: "O God, give me what Thou desirest for me, for I know that what Thou choosest for me is far better than I could choose"; if you are not bleating to get off, but asking to be given grace and strength to see this through with honour, "the very day" you pray that prayer, the answer always comes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us. It is in proportion, as we are known to him that we find our real being and identity in Christ. We know him in and through ourselves in so far as his truth is the source of our being and his merciful love is the very heart of our life and existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26865]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a god dam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you are dead? Nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me being a big guy and a physical presence out there, that's what I need to do ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29238]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me being a big guy and a physical presence out there, that's what I need to do ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ lay the body, have some big hits, play strong defense and, when you need to fight and the opportunity arises, go at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy  To inlay heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy  To inlay heaven with stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends,  That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends,  That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain  And perish in our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us -- an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God...  Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you...  Prayer is communion. Prayer is a means, but often it is an end in itself. There are times when your own wants and the needs of others drop away and you want just to look on His face and tell Him how much you love Him...  Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is high, and everyone has been coming together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is high, and everyone has been coming together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd still be a host county. But I think what's happening now with the magnitude of the storms we're looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40412]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd still be a host county. But I think what's happening now with the magnitude of the storms we're looking at is we're going to see a lot deeper intrusion by these storms when they get over Polk County or get over Central Florida.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The success in this referendum, it isn't how many people are going to say 'yes' and how many people are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The success in this referendum, it isn't how many people are going to say 'yes' and how many people are going to say 'no,' ... The success is that all Iraqis ... found out that the polling station is the way to deal with the political problems in Iraq, to deal with the violence in Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36278]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth, homogeneous one of the Big Bang, dominated by gravitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11248]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unexamined life is not worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unexamined life is not worth living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58220]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56549]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15672]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5811]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal.  [Ger., Zwar sind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53012]]></link><description><![CDATA[What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal.  [Ger., Zwar sind sie an das Beste nicht gewohnt,   Allein sie haben schrecklich viel gelesen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll get some and take some home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll get some and take some home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not only hear all thy sinful works, and words, and thoughts repeated, which thou thy self hadst utterly forgot, but thou shalt hear thy good works, thine alms, thy coming to Church, thy hearing of Sermons, given in evidence against thee, because they had hypocrisy mingled in them; yea, thou shalt find even thy repentance to condemn thee, because thou madest that but a door to a relapse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's a fabulous golf course. It's a great golf course to play match play on, and it's so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36410]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's a fabulous golf course. It's a great golf course to play match play on, and it's so easy for the fans to walk around and see other holes. It's a great venue for this event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent,  Your locks were like the raven,   Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45666]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent,  Your locks were like the raven,   Your bonny brow was brent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have excellent shooters and had good rotation, but sometimes that just happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have excellent shooters and had good rotation, but sometimes that just happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world. [Lat., Undique ad inferos tantundem viae est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19130]]></link><description><![CDATA[From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world. [Lat., Undique ad inferos tantundem viae est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse,  Right reason for their law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse,  Right reason for their law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've essentially doubled our population, doubled our load, over the last 23 years. Yet we have not added any new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37896]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've essentially doubled our population, doubled our load, over the last 23 years. Yet we have not added any new infrastructure to serve that, from the standpoint of transmission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30044]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in Louisiana.] It may look from the outside as if they are stealing or breaking the law, ... when in fact some of them are trying to survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36285</guid></item></channel></rss>