<?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[Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47279]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame  A ladder, if we will but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame  A ladder, if we will but tread   Beneath our feet each deed of shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20311]]></link><description><![CDATA[To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not like work even when someone else does it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62171]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not like work even when someone else does it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43927]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50873]]></link><description><![CDATA[In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46093]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First of all I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23288]]></link><description><![CDATA[First of all I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1970s and 1980s, many biologists thought wolverines were gone from Washington. It's only in the last 10 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39741]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1970s and 1980s, many biologists thought wolverines were gone from Washington. It's only in the last 10 years we were sure they were here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52819]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have observed that in at least two cases the sayings of our Lord imply an appeal behind the Law ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7923]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have observed that in at least two cases the sayings of our Lord imply an appeal behind the Law of Moses to the order of creation. While, therefore, the Law of Moses is from one aspect the first stage of revelation, leading up to the Law of Christ, in another aspect it is a temporary expedient on the way from the Law of Nature to the Law of Christ, serving certain limited purposes, which fulfilled, it may be set aside, leaving mankind in Christ confronted by the original law of his creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what webelieve. What we believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what webelieve. What we believe is based on our perceptions. What we perceivedepends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think.What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determineswhat we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man alive can say, "This shall not happen to me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42389]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man alive can say, "This shall not happen to me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27270]]></link><description><![CDATA[She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is himself an honour of his titles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is himself an honour of his titles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to Jericho. Let them all go to Jericho,  And ne'er be seen againe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to Jericho. Let them all go to Jericho,  And ne'er be seen againe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It pays to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46664]]></link><description><![CDATA[It pays to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors are back to looking at the economy, corporate earnings, and unfortunately the continued saga of corporate shenanigans, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors are back to looking at the economy, corporate earnings, and unfortunately the continued saga of corporate shenanigans,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53659]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it;  High, high above earth's life, earth's labor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4126]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it;  High, high above earth's life, earth's labor   E'en to the heaven's blue vault to soar.    To hover as the thunder's neighbor,     The very firmament explore.      To be a voice as from above       Like yonder stars so bright and clear,        That praise their Maker as they move,         And usher in the circling year.          Tun'd be its metal mouth alone           To things eternal and sublime.            And as the swift wing'd hours speed on             May it record the flight of time!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That loss forced us to concentrate on the satellites. And from my perspective, the satellites are where the action is. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31982]]></link><description><![CDATA[That loss forced us to concentrate on the satellites. And from my perspective, the satellites are where the action is. That's where the big surprises came.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I brought them here to make a good life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I brought them here to make a good life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words; Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56548]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words; Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that heis at once the lover and the beloved. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22435]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that heis at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodiesis the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals fromwithin is his Beloved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the passing of this draft law, international cooperation in battling corruption and other transnational crimes will be made easier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36227]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the passing of this draft law, international cooperation in battling corruption and other transnational crimes will be made easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going well and we want to continue like that. We have shown, at home or away, we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37405]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going well and we want to continue like that. We have shown, at home or away, we have got a lot of fighting spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   Faith is rest, not toil. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce God to love and pardon; and the calm reception of the truth so long rejected, that God is not waiting for any such inducements, but loves and pardons of His own goodwill, and is showing that goodwill to any sinner who will come to Him on such a footing, casting away his own poor performances or goodnesses, and relying implicitly upon the free love of Him who so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen is mightier than the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46018]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen is mightier than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's interesting because it's unusual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35919]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's interesting because it's unusual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth...never comes into the world but like a Bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth...never comes into the world but like a Bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25984]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time,  And side by side in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time,  And side by side in the sluggish tide   We sprawled in the ooze and slime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gives should not remember, he that receives should neverforget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21572]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gives should not remember, he that receives should neverforget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were witnesses. We know who did this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41196]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were witnesses. We know who did this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41196</guid></item></channel></rss>