<?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[To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50850]]></link><description><![CDATA[To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The various moral and theological and sociological disputes of the day, however progressively resolved with ecclesiastical connivance, have nothing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The various moral and theological and sociological disputes of the day, however progressively resolved with ecclesiastical connivance, have nothing to say to this spiritual hunger, which is not assuaged by legalized abortion and homosexuality, solaced by contraception, or relieved by majority rule. Nor will it take comfort in the thought that God is dead, or that mankind has come of age, or even in ecumenical negotiations for writing off Papal Infallibility against the validity of Anglican Orders. The only means of satisfying it remains that bread of life which Jesus offered, with the promise that those who are of it should never hunger again. The promise stands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it--peace! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it--peace!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension He has gone away, the Well-Beloved,  For our sake! He is risen, the Well-Beloved,  For our sake! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension He has gone away, the Well-Beloved,  For our sake! He is risen, the Well-Beloved,  For our sake! He has prayed, the Well-Beloved,  For our sake! He has spoken, He has sung, The Word was with God. Praises of the Father, Substance of the Father, The stamp and issue forever, In Love! Word of Love!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60224]]></link><description><![CDATA[My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head. [Lat., Fungino genere est; capite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18394]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head. [Lat., Fungino genere est; capite se totum tegit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be who you are and be that well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be who you are and be that well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night,  From his watch-tower in the skies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24096]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night,  From his watch-tower in the skies,   Till the dappled dawn doth rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28070]]></link><description><![CDATA[In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made Hobart shoot the type of shot that we expect Drew to handle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made Hobart shoot the type of shot that we expect Drew to handle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were close -- the top of that ridge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41794]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were close -- the top of that ridge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discover Greatness: An Illustrated History of Negro Leagues Baseball, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discover Greatness: An Illustrated History of Negro Leagues Baseball,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44937]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. [Lat., Omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae putanda est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure? - The Face of Violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, on the dawn of victory, stopped to rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19277]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, on the dawn of victory, stopped to rest and resting died.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me but my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me but my humble talents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. -The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25502]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holidays - Have no pity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holidays - Have no pity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Who is there that ever receives a gift ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/368]]></link><description><![CDATA[If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That falls under the confidentiality provisions of the program. His status is unchanged in that he continues to be under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36023]]></link><description><![CDATA[That falls under the confidentiality provisions of the program. His status is unchanged in that he continues to be under suspension.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy to men of goodwill as goodwill itself, and this is all that God requires. Every act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy to men of goodwill as goodwill itself, and this is all that God requires. Every act of goodwill permanently and sensibly increases goodwill. Trifling acts of goodwill are often more efficacious in this way than great ones. A flower given in kindness and at the right time profits more, both to giver and receiver, than some vast material benefit in which the goodwill is hidden by the magnitude of the act. Some little, sensible, individual touch from the hand of our Lord may convert the heart more than the contemplation of His death for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46226]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48261]]></link><description><![CDATA["And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really do face an incredible leadership vacuum in this state generally, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31853]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really do face an incredible leadership vacuum in this state generally,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is whatever gives joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is whatever gives joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those who have burned schools and killed doctors, nurses and many other innocent Afghans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40049]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those who have burned schools and killed doctors, nurses and many other innocent Afghans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church has magnificent buildings, superb equipment, trained leadership, excellent teaching materials, organizational ability, and yet lacks that one thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church has magnificent buildings, superb equipment, trained leadership, excellent teaching materials, organizational ability, and yet lacks that one thing that could take all these tools and make them the channel of God's will. In spite of its ever-increasing membership, the church lacks the spirit of God's growing love and understanding that can transform it from an efficient organization into a loving, dynamic fellowship where men and women become vitally alive with faith, love, and hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unraveling the web of Penelope. [Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unraveling the web of Penelope. [Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41580]]></link><description><![CDATA[She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How God ever brings like to like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9138]]></link><description><![CDATA[How God ever brings like to like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!  . . . .   Endless torments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!  . . . .   Endless torments dwell above thee:    Yet who would live, and live without thee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jupiter and the MonkeyJupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jupiter and the MonkeyJupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be deemed the handsomest. The Monkey came with the rest and presented, with all a mother's tenderness, a flat-nosed, hairless, ill-featured young Monkey as a candidate for the promised reward. A general laugh saluted her on the presentation of her son. She resolutely said, I know not whether Jupiter will allot the prize to my son, but this I do know, that he is at least in the eyes of me his mother, the dearest, handsomest, and most beautiful of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has never been a single homicide in history that has been investigated to this extent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36639]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has never been a single homicide in history that has been investigated to this extent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36639</guid></item></channel></rss>