<?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[The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he; His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he; His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11777]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, "If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky." Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think that this new document is balanced in character, and it includes North Korea's right to peaceful atomic energy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think that this new document is balanced in character, and it includes North Korea's right to peaceful atomic energy and the possibility in the long term of building a light-water nuclear reactor,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. Exclaim no more against it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. Exclaim no more against it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65288]]></link><description><![CDATA[In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24369]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He?s been a good friend of mine for many, many years now. I?m proud to say I was a member ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37070]]></link><description><![CDATA[He?s been a good friend of mine for many, many years now. I?m proud to say I was a member of the council that made him chief, and he served exceptionally well in that capacity. He was faithful in service to this city for many years, and I wish him all the success in the world with his retirement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do believe that the fire began in an upper story, but it's too early for us to have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34394]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do believe that the fire began in an upper story, but it's too early for us to have a cause it's still under investigation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58473]]></link><description><![CDATA[And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child needs to be referred to the committee before anything can be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child needs to be referred to the committee before anything can be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56070]]></link><description><![CDATA[And like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61389]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's what I do for a living. I grew up doing it and this is what I love and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's what I do for a living. I grew up doing it and this is what I love and I hope to do it for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Jesus... did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Jesus... did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or all the things He would have liked to do, but He did finish the work which God gave Him to do. The only alternative to frustration is to be sure that we are doing what God wants. Nothing substitutes for knowing that this day, this hour, in this place, we are doing the will of the Father. Then and only then can we think of all the other unfinished tasks with equanimity, and leave them with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desperate courage makes One a majority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperate courage makes One a majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61040]]></link><description><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest ;man and to the gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous  With her abundance; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous  With her abundance; she, good cateress,   Means her provision only to the good,    That live according to her sober laws,     And holy dictate of spare temperance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to show how the university feels and show how the students feel and see how much of that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to show how the university feels and show how the students feel and see how much of that is really true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's still interesting times, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38789]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's still interesting times,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If I mistake, He will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If I mistake, He will forgive me. I do not fear Him: I only fear lest, able to see and write these things, I should fail of witnessing and myself be, after all, a castaway -- no king but a talker: no disciple of Jesus, ready to go with Him to the death, but an arguer about the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conform and be dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conform and be dull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cuts like a knife but it feels so right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30821]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cuts like a knife but it feels so right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16098]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire  In killing a Pike; but the forked stick,   With a slit and a bladder,--and that other fine trick,    Which our artists call snap, with a goose or a duck,--     Will kill two for one, if you have any luck;      The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile,       To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile;        When a Pike suns himselfe and a-frogging doth go,         The two-inched hook is better, I know,          Than the ord'nary snaring: but still I must cry,           When the Pike is at home, minde the cookery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. [Lat., L'invidia, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. [Lat., L'invidia, figliuol mio, se stessa macera,  E si dilegua come agnel per fascino.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner. ("To know all is to forgive all.") ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner. ("To know all is to forgive all.") No commonplace is more untrue. Behavior, whether conditioned by an individual neurosis or by society, can be understood, that is to say, one knows exactly why such and such an individual behaves as he does. But a personal action or deed is always mysterious. When we really act, precisely because it is a matter of free choice, we can never say exactly why we do this rather than that. But it is only deeds that we are required to forgive. If someone does me an injury, the question of forgiveness only arises if I am convinced (a) that the injury he did me was a free act on his part and therefore no less mysterious to him than to me, and (b) that it was me personally whom he meant to injure. Christ does not forgive the soldiers who are nailing him to the Cross; he asks the Father to forgive them. He knows as well as they do why they are doing this -- they are a squad, detailed to execute a criminal. They do not know what they are doing, because it is not their business, as executioners, to know whom they are crucifying. If the person who does me an injury does not know what he is doing, then it is as ridiculous for me to talk about forgiving him as it would be for me to "forgive" a tile which falls on my head in a gale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're beefing up our rehab services for the coming years, including cardiac rehab. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32885]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're beefing up our rehab services for the coming years, including cardiac rehab.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61781]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family is the school of duties... founded on love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family is the school of duties... founded on love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sounds extraordinary but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15681]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sounds extraordinary but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent-- that is to triumph over old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19784]]></link><description><![CDATA[To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent-- that is to triumph over old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very difficult to be great. Losers prove this point continuously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very difficult to be great. Losers prove this point continuously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A precious pair of brothers [i.e., rascals]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48549]]></link><description><![CDATA[A precious pair of brothers [i.e., rascals].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40471]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40471</guid></item></channel></rss>