<?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[A pen is mightier then a sword as a sword may only take life while a pen can change the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pen is mightier then a sword as a sword may only take life while a pen can change the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4684]]></link><description><![CDATA[No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5617]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens like a curtain:  Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:   Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:    Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38350]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without death and decay, how could life go on? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without death and decay, how could life go on?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18496]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47259]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10939]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55389]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8688]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wyclif, Reformer, 1384  While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wyclif, Reformer, 1384  While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It was perfectly dry in spite of the fact that it had been immersed in water for centuries. The same is true of many people in the Western world. For centuries they have been surrounded by Christianity; they live immersed in the waters of its benefits. And yet it has not penetrated their hearts; they do not love it. The fault is not in Christianity, but in men's hearts, which have been hardened by materialism and intellectualism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53947]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These comments have provoked significant feedback from community football leagues and umpiring associations across Australia, all reporting dismay within their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28450]]></link><description><![CDATA[These comments have provoked significant feedback from community football leagues and umpiring associations across Australia, all reporting dismay within their umpiring ranks about being able to retain numbers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Previously, movies dealing with Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians have always had the stigma that they are automatically guilty. This film ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Previously, movies dealing with Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians have always had the stigma that they are automatically guilty. This film moves the issue closer to a more neutral stance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47959]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to hum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41478]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27650]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58535]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43468]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We returned all of our starters from last year. I rotated a lot of bodies throughout the game, but I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38849]]></link><description><![CDATA[We returned all of our starters from last year. I rotated a lot of bodies throughout the game, but I returned to my starters in the fourth quarter and they settled down at the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4189]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65290]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weight loss is not just about behavior and willpower; it's biological. There is a coordinated mechanism in the body ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weight loss is not just about behavior and willpower; it's biological. There is a coordinated mechanism in the body ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â designed to prevent you from starving to death ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that makes weight loss difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38322]]></link><description><![CDATA[This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man turns chance into good fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22310]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man turns chance into good fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look alive. Here comes a buzzard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look alive. Here comes a buzzard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, whitelight. It's God. No, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, whitelight. It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. In a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX SYSTEM FOR THE 386."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small minds are captivated by trifles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small minds are captivated by trifles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been relying very heavily on my instincts as of late, and my songwriting has come to depend on my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been relying very heavily on my instincts as of late, and my songwriting has come to depend on my ability to surrender to the inspiration whenever it strikes. When I clear my mind and let the music take over, my hands seem to move on their own, and my voice utters words I haven't premeditated. This is pure instinct. It's like riding a wave. You just take a deep breath, hop on, and hang on as long as you can. That's basically how I songwrite when I'm composing impromptu pieces. It's a lot like channeling. Or free associating. And it's super fun, because anything can happen! It's pure creativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At all times it is better to have a method. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9878]]></link><description><![CDATA[At all times it is better to have a method.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   We must be willing to accept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God. It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves. We cannot suffer well unless we see Christ everywhere, both in suffering and in the charity of those who come to the aid of our affliction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ring flies a long way because it's so thin, ... It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ring flies a long way because it's so thin, ... It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness world record.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59993]]></link><description><![CDATA[If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his duties on the court ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his duties on the court until a precipitous decline in his health the last couple of days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44768]]></link><description><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44768</guid></item></channel></rss>