<?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[It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raise the urinals. (on how management could keep the Braves on their toes) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raise the urinals. (on how management could keep the Braves on their toes)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won? -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won? -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For goodness' sake, why elevate AIDS over cancer? She shouldn't have filled out that questionnaire at all, ... President Bush ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31193]]></link><description><![CDATA[For goodness' sake, why elevate AIDS over cancer? She shouldn't have filled out that questionnaire at all, ... President Bush is asking us to have faith in things unseen. We only have that kind of faith in God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64774]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25046]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a major challenge. We are aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a major challenge. We are aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59053]]></link><description><![CDATA[To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  Now the world should be able to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  Now the world should be able to see in the Church those marks [which show] that there is a substantial sociological healing possible in the present generation. It is not enough for the Church to be engaged with the State in healing social ills, though this is important at times. But when the world can turn around and see a group of God's people exhibiting substantial healing in the area of human relationships in their present life, then the world will take notice. Each group of Christians is, as it were, a pilot plant, showing that something can be done in the present situation, if only we begin in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. - Waiting for God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy?  I hits them a rap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy?  I hits them a rap with my crook,   For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. - The Wisdom of the Heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10287]]></link><description><![CDATA[O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight  Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes;   For more of those who shrink from shame are safe    Than fall in battle, while with those who flee     Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the cpourage to follow the talent to the dark places where it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the cpourage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2723]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress  Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less,   And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess,    That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  We have all the reason in the world to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  We have all the reason in the world to believe that the goodness and justice of God is such as to make nothing necessary to be believed by any man which, by the help of due instruction, may not be made sufficiently plain to a common understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're getting matured the more responsibility you have ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33433]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're getting matured the more responsibility you have]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[External nature is only internal nature writ large. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63480]]></link><description><![CDATA[External nature is only internal nature writ large.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26718]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26718</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[Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;  One speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53889]]></link><description><![CDATA[In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;  One speaks the glory of the British queen,   And one describes a charming Indian screen;    A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;     At every word a reputation dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19240]]></link><description><![CDATA[True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12026]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like everybody points you to somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31154]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like everybody points you to somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould,  The more the marble wastes   The more the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould,  The more the marble wastes   The more the statue grows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mom said that the food they give you here tastes like dog food, but I don't think it's that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31595]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mom said that the food they give you here tastes like dog food, but I don't think it's that bad now,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none.  My tongue and soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none.  My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites:   How in my words somever she be shent,    To give them seals never, my soul, consent!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed,  The little one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5905]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed,  The little one gather around me,   To bid me good-night and be kissed;    On, the little white arms that encircle     My neck in their tender embrace      Oh, the smiles that are halos of heaven,       Shedding sunshine of love on my face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found significant problems, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found significant problems, the expedited removal process has been expanded over and over again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Katherine Harris put out the list, then 534 other members can do it too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39737]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Katherine Harris put out the list, then 534 other members can do it too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!  Quoth the Raven "Nevermore!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53768</guid></item></channel></rss>