<?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[I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a bit of both, ... It is a blessing because I know that I am capable but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a bit of both, ... It is a blessing because I know that I am capable but it is a curse because I don't get the opportunities that I normally would get. But if I am in a situation that is out of my control, everyone is still going to hold me responsible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. -The Merchant of Venice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55544]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Day of Jesus Christ is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Day of Jesus Christ is the Day of all days; the brilliant and visible light of this one point is the hidden invisible light of all points; to perceive the righteousness of God once and for all here is the hope of righteousness (Gal. 5:5) everywhere and at all times. By the knowledge of Jesus Christ all human waiting is guaranteed, authorized and established; for He makes it known that it is not men who wait, but God -- in His faithfulness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. [Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. [Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of celebration to this thing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40896]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of celebration to this thing,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48793]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4077]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43731]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the way I play. I played that way in college. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29241]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the way I play. I played that way in college.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made not pleasures for the rich alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50231]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made not pleasures for the rich alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63052]]></link><description><![CDATA[The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we showed a lot of poise as a team. We stayed together when Colorado State made their run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we showed a lot of poise as a team. We stayed together when Colorado State made their run at us. The guys hung in there and it's a great win for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century's Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century's Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense of permanence and a long view. At the beginning of the 21st century, we are at a peak of human power, wealth and information... We need to look back at our wonderful natural and human heritage, and cherish and protect the abundant values to be found there. We need to look out to the sides and see other parts of the world that need our help and can provide good ideas to go forward... We need to look ahead to be certain that our actions of today will make the world a better and richer and more varied place for our grandchildren and their grandchildren.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. To some skeptical friend, 'Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut, I've got the documentation right here... It's in my file at home. ...Under "D".']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is sensible if we start by knowing that the miraculous... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is sensible if we start by knowing that the miraculous... never occurs. Now, I do not want here to discuss whether the miraculous is possible: I only want to point out that this is a purely philosophical question. Scholars, as scholars, speak on it with no more authority than anyone else. The canon, "If miraculous, unhistorical", is one they bring to their study of the texts, not one they have learned from it. If one is speaking of authority, the united authority of all the Biblical critics in the world counts for nothing. On this they speak simply as men -- men obviously influenced by, and perhaps insufficiently critical of, the spirit of the age they grew up in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24451]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is like the relation between hand and eyes;it is like when the hand get hurt,eye cries; and when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is like the relation between hand and eyes;it is like when the hand get hurt,eye cries; and when the eye cries, the hand wipes .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never understimate the heart of a champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never understimate the heart of a champion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977   The principal part of faith is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977   The principal part of faith is patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12888]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48386]]></link><description><![CDATA[the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature made the fields and man the cities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature made the fields and man the cities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superman don't need no seat belt. [Comment to flight attendant, who replied, 'Superman don't need no airplane, either.'] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superman don't need no seat belt. [Comment to flight attendant, who replied, 'Superman don't need no airplane, either.']]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do everything with so much love in your heart that you wouldnever want to do it any other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do everything with so much love in your heart that you wouldnever want to do it any other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's weird. I mean, he's a dream, a fantasy, and, if he becomes real, it's like he's not mine anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53037]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's weird. I mean, he's a dream, a fantasy, and, if he becomes real, it's like he's not mine anymore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53037</guid></item></channel></rss>