<?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[Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always want more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always want more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist  In several striking cases of conversion I have studied, those in need were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist  In several striking cases of conversion I have studied, those in need were inspired and affected, not merely by the kindness of an individual... but by the love and sympathy of the Church as a whole... Examples could be multiplied. This type of service is a great witness to the reality of Christian life and faith; but it presupposes a spirit of fellowship within the Church, a spirit which is all too rare. It means that there is mutual respect and trust between the minister and the members of his Church; and a spirit of fellowship which is outward-looking and which issues in service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["When I am white I win because I am white. When I am black I win because I am Bogoljubov ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5859]]></link><description><![CDATA["When I am white I win because I am white. When I am black I win because I am Bogoljubov]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6107]]></link><description><![CDATA[As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For us, they are all teaching games. We went into this game trying to win it. They have a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35457]]></link><description><![CDATA[For us, they are all teaching games. We went into this game trying to win it. They have a great football team with a lot of speed and size.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield: Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke:  How jocund did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield: Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke:  How jocund did they drive their team a-field!   How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly organized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to startdoing it right away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22191]]></link><description><![CDATA[When fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to startdoing it right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta. [Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l'assassinat, c'est notre magna charta.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta. [Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l'assassinat, c'est notre magna charta.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All movements go too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64403]]></link><description><![CDATA[All movements go too far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46520]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   Almighty God, have mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   Almighty God, have mercy on N and N and on all that bear me ill will, and would me harm, and on their faults and mine together; and by such easy, tender, merciful means as Thine infinite wisdom best can divine, vouchsafe to amend and redress; and make us saved souls together in heaven where we may ever live and love together with Thee and Thy blessed saints, O glorious Trinity, for the bitter passion of our sweet saviour Christ, amen.   ... ascribed to Sir Thomas More  July 7, 2002   O God, the strength of all those who put their trust in thee; mercifully accept our prayers; and because, through the weakness of our mortal nature, we can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace, that in keeping thy commandments we may please thee, both in will and deed; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.   ... Collect for the first Sunday after Trinity, The Book of Common Prayer [1928]  July 8, 2002   Happily for us, the fundamental Christian message concerns not what we ought to do, but what God has done and what God is willing to do. In fellowship with Him and with others who are likewise trying to be like Him, we can be lifted up above our native possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21003]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19664]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to Jericho. Let them all go to Jericho,  And ne'er be seen againe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to Jericho. Let them all go to Jericho,  And ne'er be seen againe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12652]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've helped with what I've needed, here and at home, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37368]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've helped with what I've needed, here and at home,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feetyou do not hear the screams or smell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feetyou do not hear the screams or smell the blood or seethose without limbs or eyes. It was not til I readHersey's Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents,  Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents,  Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state,   Bleed gold for ministers to sport away.    Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop. -Henny Youngman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop. -Henny Youngman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership does not depend on being right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership does not depend on being right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair,  but manifestations of strength and resolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair,  but manifestations of strength and resolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51123]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25661]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was some very good competition there from all over Sacramento, and Randall did a good job. The kid ahead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34005]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was some very good competition there from all over Sacramento, and Randall did a good job. The kid ahead of him was one of best throwers in his area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,  With golden treasures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,  With golden treasures load his little thighs,   And steer his distant journey through the skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child is a person who is going to carry on what you started. He or she is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65844]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child is a person who is going to carry on what you started. He or she is going to sit where you are sitting and when you are gone, attend to the things which you think are important. The fate of humanity is in his or her hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an important meeting for his administration. He'd like to show there's a new tone to Ottawa-Washington relations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32987]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an important meeting for his administration. He'd like to show there's a new tone to Ottawa-Washington relations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54458]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before, beside us, and above The firefly lights his lamp of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before, beside us, and above The firefly lights his lamp of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58943</guid></item></channel></rss>