<?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[From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52007]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight. [Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria aliorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42755]]></link><description><![CDATA[The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight. [Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria aliorum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18427]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22501]]></link><description><![CDATA[When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["And now, Madam," I addressed her, "we shall try who shall get the breeches." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61931]]></link><description><![CDATA["And now, Madam," I addressed her, "we shall try who shall get the breeches."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck,  believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck,  believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike income, or even sales taxes, property taxes are not accurate indicators of your cash at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike income, or even sales taxes, property taxes are not accurate indicators of your cash at hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876   It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet we are not to omit reading the abstruser texts, which have any appearance of relating to us; but should follow the example of the Blessed Virgin, who understood not several of our Saviour's sayings, but kept them all in her heart. Were we only to learn humility thus, it would be enough; but we shall by degrees come to apprehend far more than we expected, if we diligently compare spiritual things to spiritual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His proposals just aren't that popular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33405]]></link><description><![CDATA[His proposals just aren't that popular.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't in the shooters' faces. And then we were not physical enough on the boards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41222]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't in the shooters' faces. And then we were not physical enough on the boards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46363]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66241]]></link><description><![CDATA[No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have the highest customer satisfaction that I've seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38963]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have the highest customer satisfaction that I've seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate artists who are not of their time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate artists who are not of their time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59029]]></link><description><![CDATA[I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course;  Through watchful guards its passage make,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course;  Through watchful guards its passage make,   And loves through solid walls to break.    [Lat., Aurum per medios ire satellites     Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius      Ictu fulmineo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66651]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11329]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear a long black coat   All button'd down before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12830</guid></item><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[An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. [Lat., Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57858]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. [Lat., Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendem rei publicae causae.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44540]]></link><description><![CDATA[For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41183]]></link><description><![CDATA[But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I step out of the role you have written for meyou make me feel like a plagiarist.from the play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/260]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I step out of the role you have written for meyou make me feel like a plagiarist.from the play Jake's Women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That faith alone will never forsake Christ which springs out of or is built upon a conviction of the need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7197]]></link><description><![CDATA[That faith alone will never forsake Christ which springs out of or is built upon a conviction of the need for Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/97]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/97</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16334]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27623]]></link><description><![CDATA[In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:  His rash fierce blaze of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:  His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,   For violent fires soon burn out themselves;    Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;     He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;      With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;       Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,        Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a society without a heroic dimension? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19252]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a society without a heroic dimension?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis ismalpractice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21186]]></link><description><![CDATA[In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis ismalpractice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The monarch drank that happy hour The sweetest, noblest draught of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monarch drank that happy hour The sweetest, noblest draught of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50726]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, The women pardoned all, except her face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, The women pardoned all, except her face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of these guys will back down from anything. I don't think they're afraid of the big crowds or the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33942]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of these guys will back down from anything. I don't think they're afraid of the big crowds or the moment. I think they'll thrive on that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33942</guid></item></channel></rss>