<?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 wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64520]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54829]]></link><description><![CDATA[If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?  The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14972]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?  The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?--   They sought a faith's pure shrine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, someare in the middle, still more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21581]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, someare in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot moredon't even know there is a ladder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea complains upon a thousand shores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea complains upon a thousand shores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5475]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1266]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274   The end of all my labors has come. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274   The end of all my labors has come. All that I have written appears to me as much straw after the things that have been revealed to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27212]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10233]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I looked at the tanker, I saw gas pouring out onto the highway. I said, 'Oh my God.' The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35572]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I looked at the tanker, I saw gas pouring out onto the highway. I said, 'Oh my God.' The traffic was driving right through the gasoline,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had the guts to invite someone like this and put on a show. And to do it, it takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29938]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had the guts to invite someone like this and put on a show. And to do it, it takes the whole town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too bad to see a teammate go down and a good friend like that. It's unfortunate, but I'm just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28809]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too bad to see a teammate go down and a good friend like that. It's unfortunate, but I'm just going to do the things I've been doing, that's working hard and working on preparation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never let my school interfere with my education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never let my school interfere with my education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11353]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise  By the stairway of surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise  By the stairway of surprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love someone, tell them. For hearts are often broken by words left unspoken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63032]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love someone, tell them. For hearts are often broken by words left unspoken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   The truth is that so long as we hold both sides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   The truth is that so long as we hold both sides of the proposition together they contain nothing inconsistent with orthodoxy, but as soon as one is divorced from the other, it is bound to prove a stumbling-block. "Only those who believe obey" is what we say to that part of a believer's soul which obeys, and "only those who obey believe" is what we say to that part of the soul of the obedient which believes. If the first half of the proposition stands alone, the believer is exposed to the danger of cheap grace, which is another word for damnation. If the second half stands alone, the believer is exposed to the danger of salvation through works, which is also another word for damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17988]]></link><description><![CDATA[And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bliss itself is not worth having, If we're by compulsion blest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bliss itself is not worth having, If we're by compulsion blest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (Christian) "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (Christian) "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remittances are for the early graduation expenses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41447]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remittances are for the early graduation expenses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63473]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27466]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shakes his ambroisal curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shakes his ambroisal curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you treat a kid as an adult, they start to act as an adult in the way they commit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28204]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you treat a kid as an adult, they start to act as an adult in the way they commit crimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280  Our own curiosity often hindereth us in the reading of holy writings, when we seek to understand and discuss, where we should pass simply on. If thou wouldst profit by thy reading, read humbly, simply, honestly, and not desiring to win a character [i.e., reputation] for learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4858]]></link><description><![CDATA[True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23082]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65873]]></link><description><![CDATA[My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45852]]></link><description><![CDATA[This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every noble work is at first impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every noble work is at first impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the sun, truth is self luminescent.It is reality, self evident, needing no external defense.It is immediately recognized by resonant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the sun, truth is self luminescent.It is reality, self evident, needing no external defense.It is immediately recognized by resonant hearts.It can be hidden for a short time by cloudsor by imprisoning others indoors..but inevitably truth conquers all,as does love.God whose name is Truth whose name is Love is endingthe violence in the world now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25717]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is the greatest act of optimism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is the greatest act of optimism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glorious fault of angels and of gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glorious fault of angels and of gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44391]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44391</guid></item></channel></rss>