<?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[Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48271]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are unknown,  Have stirred up many zealous souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are unknown,  Have stirred up many zealous souls   To fight against imaginary giants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With bated breath we offer wicked vows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50597]]></link><description><![CDATA[With bated breath we offer wicked vows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5995]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16826]]></link><description><![CDATA[My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful assertiveness technique is to repeat your command with the confidence that the child will soon yield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3383]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful assertiveness technique is to repeat your command with the confidence that the child will soon yield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   One can say: "I will, but my body does not obey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   One can say: "I will, but my body does not obey me"; but not: "My will does not obey me".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old pagans had to choose between a brilliant, jangling, irresponsible universe, alive with lawless powers, and the serene and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old pagans had to choose between a brilliant, jangling, irresponsible universe, alive with lawless powers, and the serene and ordered universe of God and law. We modern pagans have to choose between that divine order, and the grey, dead, irresponsible, chaotic universe of atheism. And the tragedy is that we may make that choice without knowing it -- not by clear conviction but by vague drifting, by losing interest in Him. A nominal deist will say: "Yes, of course there must be some sort of Force that created the galaxy. But it's childish to imagine that It has any personal relation to me!" In that belief atheism exists as an undiagnosed disease. The man who says, "One God," and does not care, is an atheist in his heart. The man who speaks of God and will not recognize him in the burning bush -- that man is an atheist, though he speak with the tongues of men or angels, and appear in his pew every Sunday, and make large contributions to the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they give you them for free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33739]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl yesterday, she was pregnant. Had her whole belly showin' and ya' know what she had painted on it? "Love Child"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sick StagA sick stag lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sick StagA sick stag lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the means of living. Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's our bread and butter. Sometimes it's good and it was good tonight. The first time we played them they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32525]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's our bread and butter. Sometimes it's good and it was good tonight. The first time we played them they handled it very well and last Friday they played it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54949]]></link><description><![CDATA[No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep down, I'm pretty superficial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28037]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an absolutely fantastic end to the mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31072]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an absolutely fantastic end to the mission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62479]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot! Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--  Once taught a jay to supplicate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot! Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--  Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods,   And made a Polly-theist of a Parrot!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was back and forth all game, and we had no downturns. We only missed two serves in three games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31199]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was back and forth all game, and we had no downturns. We only missed two serves in three games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O!  And, in baboons, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O!  And, in baboons, our parent race   Was found by old Monboddo.    Their A, B, C, he made them speak,     And learn their qui, quae, quod, O!      Till Hebrew, Latin, Welsh, and Greek       They knew as well's Monboddo!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets thinks, with her timid blue eye, To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets thinks, with her timid blue eye, To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   The dual role of personification of the past and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   The dual role of personification of the past and preserver of a subcultural ethos, a role clergymen play quite avidly, takes its toll when they speak of God. Because of the role they have been willing to play, when they use the word God it is heard in a certain way. It is heard, often with deference and usually with courtesy, as a word referring to the linchpin of the era of Christendom (past) or as the totem of one of the tribal subcultures (irrelevant). The only way clergy can ever change the way in which the word they use is perceived is to refuse to play the role of antiquarian and medicine man in which the society casts them; but this is difficult, because it is what they are paid for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17795</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/7310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   I think I have never heard a sermon preached on the story of Mary and Martha that did not attempt, somehow, somewhere, to explain away its text. Mary's, of course, was the better part -- the Lord said so, and we must not precisely contradict Him. But we will be careful not to despise Martha. No doubt, He approved of her, too. We could not get on without her, and indeed, having paid lip-service to God's opinion, we must admit that we greatly prefer her, for Martha was doing a really feminine job, whereas Mary was just behaving like any other disciple; and that is a hard pill to swallow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3806]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don\'t find fault, find a remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don\'t find fault, find a remedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Saturday Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878 Sing, men and angels, sing, for God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Saturday Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878 Sing, men and angels, sing, for God our Life and King Has given us light and spring and morning breaking Now may man's soul arise as kinsman to the skies, And God unseals his eyes to an awaking. Sing, creatures, sing; the dust that lives by lure and lust Is kindled by the thrust of life undying; This hope our Master bare has made all fortunes fair, And man can on and dare, his death defying. After the winter snows a wind of healing blows, And thorns put forth a rose, and lilies cheer us; Life's everlasting spring has robbed death of his sting, Henceforth a cry can bring our Master near us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6545</guid></item></channel></rss>