<?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[Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modred's narrow foxy face, Heart hiding smile, and gray persistent eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modred's narrow foxy face, Heart hiding smile, and gray persistent eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7499]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pampered menial drove me from the door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3929]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pampered menial drove me from the door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had taken him under her wing ... and he helped her with shopping, cleaning and various other things she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36168]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had taken him under her wing ... and he helped her with shopping, cleaning and various other things she was no longer able to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They think they have God Almighty by the toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41135]]></link><description><![CDATA[They think they have God Almighty by the toe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Greeks said, "Whom the gods love die young," they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52349]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Greeks said, "Whom the gods love die young," they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20547]]></link><description><![CDATA[To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16976]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, everybody would prefer to play inside, you know, because the conditions are totally different. But what can we do? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, everybody would prefer to play inside, you know, because the conditions are totally different. But what can we do? If the supervisor, they make the schedules, they put you on this court, what can you do?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has anything to cash out. I think this year people are going to be feeling pretty poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41559]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has anything to cash out. I think this year people are going to be feeling pretty poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19478]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been a special group of seniors that has accomplished a lot. One of the things missing from their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38082]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been a special group of seniors that has accomplished a lot. One of the things missing from their resume is a win over Navy. That's a huge void they would like to fill in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  I have often, on my knees, been shocked to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  I have often, on my knees, been shocked to find what sort of thoughts I have, for a moment, been addressing to God; what infantile placations I was really offering, what claims I have really made, even what absurd adjustments or compromises I was, half-consciously, proposing. There is a Pagan, savage heart in me somewhere. For unfortunately the folly and idiot-cunning of Paganism seem to have far more power of surviving than its innocent or even beautiful elements. It is easy, once you have power, to silence the pipes, still the dances, disfigure the statues, and forget the stories; but not easy to kill the savage, the greedy, frightened creature now cringing, now blustering in one's soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more dif.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18219]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tigers have built a much stronger military machine in the four years of the cease-fire. If the intensity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Tigers have built a much stronger military machine in the four years of the cease-fire. If the intensity of the war increases, there is no doubt they have developed a capability to strike in Colombo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10058]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have mercy upon us miserable sinners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have mercy upon us miserable sinners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will these graces to the grave,  And leave the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will these graces to the grave,  And leave the world no copy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the diligence of his idleness. [Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20328]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the diligence of his idleness. [Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/120]]></link><description><![CDATA[These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who don't want their children, give them to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw him. He got shot in the head. [The bullet] stopped in the middle of his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28934]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw him. He got shot in the head. [The bullet] stopped in the middle of his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city ... Gas-filled, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47673]]></link><description><![CDATA[The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city ... Gas-filled, noisy and hazardous, our streets have become the most inhumane landscape in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful people make money. It's not that people who make moneybecome successful, but that successful people attract money. They bringsuccess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful people make money. It's not that people who make moneybecome successful, but that successful people attract money. They bringsuccess to what they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55333]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54072]]></link><description><![CDATA[When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54072</guid></item></channel></rss>