<?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[You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55081]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is just a good day in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is just a good day in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us. It is in proportion, as we are known to him that we find our real being and identity in Christ. We know him in and through ourselves in so far as his truth is the source of our being and his merciful love is the very heart of our life and existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a small hobby, family farm. We have no intention of any other large animals, like cattle. Our pastures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42656]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a small hobby, family farm. We have no intention of any other large animals, like cattle. Our pastures are small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse.  He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3040]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse.  He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,   And that a Lord may be an owl,    A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice,     And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649  The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649  The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. Christians should seek for inner enlargement till their outward dimension gives no hint of the vastness within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freshman coming up may be the best group as a whole that we have had in a long time. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freshman coming up may be the best group as a whole that we have had in a long time. I think that the future is bright for Stone football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Religion is the same that ever it was, only it suffers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Religion is the same that ever it was, only it suffers by them that make profession of it. Never was there less regard for the Person and offices of Christ, of His grace, and of the benefits of His mediation, among them that are called Christians, than is found among many at this day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters to Young Men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving yourself to someone who doesn't respect you surrenders pieces of your soul that you'll never get back... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving yourself to someone who doesn't respect you surrenders pieces of your soul that you'll never get back...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The $50,000 fine is the highest that can be levied in a death-related case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The $50,000 fine is the highest that can be levied in a death-related case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16560]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist  Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist  Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two: your life preaches all week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourself to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words, from God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6502</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><item><title><![CDATA[Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But you have signed an agreement with the Russians! They will sell us oil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29706]]></link><description><![CDATA[But you have signed an agreement with the Russians! They will sell us oil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail;  The body should always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14082]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail;  The body should always be little and sweet,   And a sting should be felt in its tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["When a man says he's willin'," said Mr. Barkis, "it's as much as to say, that man's a-waitin' for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61591]]></link><description><![CDATA["When a man says he's willin'," said Mr. Barkis, "it's as much as to say, that man's a-waitin' for a answer."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9761]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast  And fills the white and rustling sails, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43991]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast  And fills the white and rustling sails,   And bends the gallant mast!    And bends the gallant mast, my boys,     While, like the eagle free,      Away the good ship flies, and leaves       Old England in the lee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our duty not to squander opportunities for reconciliation, the time for reconciliation has long been here and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36686]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our duty not to squander opportunities for reconciliation, the time for reconciliation has long been here and we have squandered it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think lots of people will be out there today. This is a stage in a movement that is growing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think lots of people will be out there today. This is a stage in a movement that is growing and that no politician can ignore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62377]]></link><description><![CDATA[WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["How does the Water Come down at Lodore?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61307]]></link><description><![CDATA["How does the Water Come down at Lodore?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't much older than the students. They were 18, and I was 22, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't much older than the students. They were 18, and I was 22,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1715]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And last, the crown of a' my grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48689]]></link><description><![CDATA[And last, the crown of a' my grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7764]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love giveth sure access to God. But he who still delighteth in sin, no marvel if he is afraid of death and judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34757]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't solve their problems with therapy, solve them with drinking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13007]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't solve their problems with therapy, solve them with drinking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I checked him out on Monday morning and he was concerned about his knee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34714]]></link><description><![CDATA[I checked him out on Monday morning and he was concerned about his knee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19542]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. -Alan Watts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dick Cheney blows birds outof the sky for pleasurebut he drops bombs onIraqi childrenfor power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dick Cheney blows birds outof the sky for pleasurebut he drops bombs onIraqi childrenfor power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great souls endure in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great souls endure in silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was real pleased how we held our composure, and I'm disappointed we couldn't come out with a win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was real pleased how we held our composure, and I'm disappointed we couldn't come out with a win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from the earth. Night dew clings to the soil and makes plants glisten. Birds call to one another. Bees are already at work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43941]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know how to win victory, Hannibal, you do not how to use it [Lat., Vincere scis, Hannibal; victoria uti ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60584]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know how to win victory, Hannibal, you do not how to use it [Lat., Vincere scis, Hannibal; victoria uti nescis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60584</guid></item></channel></rss>