<?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[If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22103]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found;  And 'tis joy that moves the pinion  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found;  And 'tis joy that moves the pinion   When the wheel of time goes round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live;  Ours is her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54044]]></link><description><![CDATA[O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live;  Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253  It is of the greatest importance for the soul to go to prayer with confidence, and such a pure and disinterested love as seeks nothing from the Father but the ability to please Him and to do His will; for a child who only proportions his diligence to his hope of reward renders himself unworthy of all reward. Go, then, to prayer, not that ye may enjoy spiritual delights, but that ye may be full or empty, just as it pleaseth God. This will preserve you in an evenness of spirit, either in desertion or in consolation, and will prevent your being surprised at dryness, or the apparent repulses of Him who is altogether Love. Constant prayer is to keep the heart always right towards God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just a ball hog. He probably could be our best player on offense, but we need him on defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33451]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just a ball hog. He probably could be our best player on offense, but we need him on defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52416]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  We can reach the point where it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  We can reach the point where it becomes possible for us to recognize and understand Original Sin, that dark counter-centre of evil in our nature -- that is to say, though it is not our nature, it is of it -- that something within us which rejoices when disaster befalls the very cause we are trying to serve, or misfortune overtakes even those we love. Life in God is not an escape from this, but a way to gain full insight concerning it. It is not our depravity which forces a fictitious religious explanation upon us, but the experience of religious reality which forces the "Night Side" out into the light. It is when we stand in the righteous all-seeing light of love that we can dare to look at, admit, and consciously suffer under this something in us which wills disaster, misfortune, defeat to everything outside the sphere of our narrowest self interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.   - Michael Eyquen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54486]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.   - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the lover's gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the lover's gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3512]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a life-style I chose for myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8818]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He koude songes make and well endite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46852]]></link><description><![CDATA[He koude songes make and well endite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing has become America's tragic theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing has become America's tragic theater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23936]]></link><description><![CDATA[How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4515]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6626]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless Thou enablest me"; and... then he received strength more than sufficient. When he had failed in his duty, he simply confessed his fault, saying to God, "I shall never do otherwise if Thou leavest me to myself; it is Thou who must hinder my falling, and mend what is amiss." After this, he gave himself no further uneasiness about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How did Jesus show his authority? Not by making vast claims for himself, though such claims were implicit. His authority ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7111]]></link><description><![CDATA[How did Jesus show his authority? Not by making vast claims for himself, though such claims were implicit. His authority seemed to reside in what he was and what he did rather than in what he specifically claimed to be. Especially in Mark's Gospel there is an elusive quality about his authority, the mystery of the hidden Messiah. His authority was at the same time most deeply hidden and most clearly expressed by his servanthood... The more the Church in its life shows forth the character of the Servant, the more will its teaching bear the marks of the authority of the Servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,  And never going aright, being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,  And never going aright, being a watch,   But being watched that it may still go right!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine you're a three-year-old and you walk into a hospital. Suddenly, things don't smell very well, and the light is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine you're a three-year-old and you walk into a hospital. Suddenly, things don't smell very well, and the light is a little too bright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most famous example is probably early on in the Harper government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most famous example is probably early on in the Harper government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59086]]></link><description><![CDATA[For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On their own merits modest men are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27383]]></link><description><![CDATA[On their own merits modest men are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3324]]></link><description><![CDATA[So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a couple 70-degree days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a couple 70-degree days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's greatness can be measured by his enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13874]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's greatness can be measured by his enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46625]]></link><description><![CDATA[She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She acquires momentum as she advances. [The progress of Fame or Rumour.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51824]]></link><description><![CDATA[She acquires momentum as she advances. [The progress of Fame or Rumour.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46067]]></link><description><![CDATA[No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34413]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a high explosive bomb but at this stage we are still investigating the type of bomb, whether it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a high explosive bomb but at this stage we are still investigating the type of bomb, whether it was homemade or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't take a chance on infecting another team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33298]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't take a chance on infecting another team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46207]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46207</guid></item></channel></rss>