<?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[I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10781]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danger breeds best on too much confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danger breeds best on too much confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even one year is still excessive. In most employment contracts, trial periods are from one to six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even one year is still excessive. In most employment contracts, trial periods are from one to six months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66583]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. [Fr., On ne peut repondre de son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. [Fr., On ne peut repondre de son courage quand on n'a jamais ete dans le peril.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, Microsoft has behaved like the clear-cutters of the computer software industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34576]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, Microsoft has behaved like the clear-cutters of the computer software industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Direction is more important than speed. We are so busy looking at our speedometers that we forget the milestone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Direction is more important than speed. We are so busy looking at our speedometers that we forget the milestone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good lawyer is a bad neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam,  There's a warmth about to glow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59457]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam,  There's a warmth about to glow,   There's a flower about to blow;    There's a midnight blackness changing     Into gray;      Men of thought and men of action,       Clear the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no more our verse would scrawl,   For Shakespeare he had said it all!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.  ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19210]]></link><description><![CDATA[A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4862]]></link><description><![CDATA[In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;  Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great refusal. [It., Il gran rifiuto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great refusal. [It., Il gran rifiuto.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57326]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold, Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4903]]></link><description><![CDATA[But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold, Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't stand accessories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't stand accessories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not good. The meeting was bad. Relations were bad. It was very hostile, even bitter... I don't like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30125]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not good. The meeting was bad. Relations were bad. It was very hostile, even bitter... I don't like to see grown men bickering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life has been a series of emergencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65260]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life has been a series of emergencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16362]]></link><description><![CDATA[He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The SEC has been closer to the Mountain West, Conference USA, and the Big East than it has been to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The SEC has been closer to the Mountain West, Conference USA, and the Big East than it has been to either the Big 12 or the Pac-10. Arizona State has posted more non-conference wins versus the current BCS Top 25 (No. 9 Iowa and No. 25 UTEP) by itself than the entire SEC.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dirigo [I lead] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dirigo [I lead]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clever men are sometimes the dupes of their own cleverness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clever men are sometimes the dupes of their own cleverness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great deal of human nature in man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19931]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great deal of human nature in man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because th]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune and love favor the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune and love favor the brave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a precautionary measure, we have detained 20 protestors who were aggravating the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41366]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a precautionary measure, we have detained 20 protestors who were aggravating the situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark Error's other hidden side is truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51055]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [Vulgate Lat., Pax huic domui.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45866]]></link><description><![CDATA[And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [Vulgate Lat., Pax huic domui.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   We have all been inoculated with Christianity, and are never likely to take it seriously now! You put some of the virus of some dreadful illness into a man's arm, and there is a little itchiness, some scratchiness, a slight discomfort--disagreeable, no doubt, but not the fever of the real disease, the turning and the tossing, and the ebbing strength. And we have all been inoculated with Christianity, more or less. We are on Christ's side, we wish him well, we hope that He will win, and we are even prepared to do something for Him, provided, of course, that He is reasonable, and does not make too much of an upset among our cozy comforts and our customary ways. But there is not the passion of zeal, and the burning enthusiasm, and the eagerness of self-sacrifice, of the real faith that changes character and wins the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34</guid></item></channel></rss>