<?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[Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from our own;   Or come discolor'd through out passions shown;    Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies,     Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personal power is the ability to take action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personal power is the ability to take action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 Continuing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   As we get older, we know what we need most from forgiveness is not suspension of punishment, but assurance that love is unbroken even when we are separated... We must realize that God is against us when we are sinning; yet we dare trust that His gracious love reaches to us across the chasm which separates us from Him. When we understand His loving attitude and accept His Grace, He releases His love in us. By that love we are able to begin to keep His commands for us -- to love Him with heart, mind, soul and strength, and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If it be all for naught, for nothingness At last, why does God make the world so fair? Why spill this golden splendor out across The western hills, and light the silver lamp Of eve? Why give me eyes to see, and soul To love so strong and deep? Then, with a pang This brightness stabs me through, and wakes within Rebellious voice to cry against all death? Why set this hunger for eternity To gnaw my heartstrings through, if death ends all? If death ends all, then evil must be good, Wrong must be right, and beauty ugliness.  God is a Judas who betrays His Son, And with a kiss, damns all the world to hell, -- If Christ rose not again.   ... Unknown soldier, killed in World War I  August 9, 2002 Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 Concluding a short series of verse on Christ: With this ambiguous earth his dealings have been told us. These abide:    The signal to a maid, the human birth,    The lesson, and the young Man crucified. But not a star of all the innumerable host of stars has heard    How he administered this terrestrial ball.    Our race has kept their Lord's entrusted Word. Of his earth-visiting feet none knows the secret, cherished, perilous,    The terrible, shamefast, frightened, whispered, sweet,    Heart-shattering secret of his way with us. No planet knows that this, our wayside planet, carrying land and wave,    Love and life multiplied, and pain and bliss,    Bears, as its chief treasure, one forsaken grave. Nor, in our little day, may his devices with the heavens be guessed,    His pilgrimage to thread the Milky Way    Or his bestowal there be manifest. But in the eternities, doubtless we shall compare    Together, hear a million alien Gospels, in what guise    He trod the Pleiades, the Lyre, and the Bear. O, be prepared, my soul! To read the inconceivable, to scan    The million forms of God those stars unroll    When, in our turn, we show to them a Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worked on whatever I have to on whatever team in practice. I work hard in everything as hard as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31512]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worked on whatever I have to on whatever team in practice. I work hard in everything as hard as I can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27245]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. -Mary Frances Berry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43732]]></link><description><![CDATA[A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a really innovative idea. I've done concerts for young people all over the world, but I never thought of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33061]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a really innovative idea. I've done concerts for young people all over the world, but I never thought of using the Beatles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath the grace of God, hath wealth enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51405]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath the grace of God, hath wealth enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not always at ease who laughs. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24173]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not always at ease who laughs. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17614]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63883]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57543]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kept the game plan simple. We told them to come out and play like this was an elimination game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kept the game plan simple. We told them to come out and play like this was an elimination game because we have one on Tuesday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So I am interested in acting, but offers that have come in are ‘small town girl wants to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31765]]></link><description><![CDATA[So I am interested in acting, but offers that have come in are ‘small town girl wants to be a singer, has dreams and aspirations, makes it as a star.’ JLo could pull that off, give it to her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ascetic believed that, because he was so holy, the Devil was permitted special liberties with him, and he found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ascetic believed that, because he was so holy, the Devil was permitted special liberties with him, and he found in his increasing agony of effort a token of divine approval. Not along this track lies the path of moral progress. Christianity says: face the evil once for all, and disown it. Then quiet the spirit in the presence of God. Let His perfections fill the field of vision. In particular, let the concrete embodiment of the goodness of God in Christ attract and absorb the gaze of the soul. Here is the righteousness, not as a fixed and abstract ideal, but in a living human person. The righteousness of Christ is a real achievement of God's own Spirit in man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mentalhabit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mentalhabit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither accorded him a superior status to sustain his confidence nor made it easy for him to acquire an unquestioned sense of social usefulness. For he derives his sense of usefulness mainly from directing, instructing, and planning- from minding other people's business- and is bound to feel superfluous and neglected where people believe themselves competent to manage individual and communal affairs, and are impatient of supervision and regulation. A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shrove Tuesday marks the beginning of the Lenten journey in a celebratory way. We're on this 40-day path. How can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shrove Tuesday marks the beginning of the Lenten journey in a celebratory way. We're on this 40-day path. How can we remember this with our actions?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51943]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22730]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58223]]></link><description><![CDATA[How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65046]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there are multiple complaints, then my suspicion would be somewhere between the refinery and the tank, the blend encountered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33796]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there are multiple complaints, then my suspicion would be somewhere between the refinery and the tank, the blend encountered water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision is the seedling of fear ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision is the seedling of fear]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55064]]></link><description><![CDATA[, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships. -John Gottman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50279]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can one review thousands and thousands of pages in just a matter of a few days? This court has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28228]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can one review thousands and thousands of pages in just a matter of a few days? This court has been deliberating with the evidence for the past year, but it has been keeping it away from the defense, which is not fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go West, young man! Go West. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go West, young man! Go West.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58885]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The times they are a-changing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The times they are a-changing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18485</guid></item></channel></rss>