<?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[Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41409]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. -Henry David Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to get someone else some work at the catcher spot, just in case one girl happens to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35402]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to get someone else some work at the catcher spot, just in case one girl happens to be struggling. These girls are so new, I'm still finding out what positions they can play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in spaceand indefinite in duration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21242]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61136]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41508]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["When the Son of Man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?" If He should now come, would He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8051]]></link><description><![CDATA["When the Son of Man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?" If He should now come, would He find it in us? What fruits of faith have we to show? Do we look upon this life only as a short passage to a better? Do we believe that we must suffer with Jesus Christ before we can reign with Him? Do we consider this world as a deceitful appearance, and death as the entrance to true happiness? Do we live by faith? Does it animate us? Do we relish the eternal truths it presents us with? Are we as careful to nourish our souls with those truths as to maintain our bodies with proper diet? Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgements by it?  Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens; if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to hear it said, "That is he." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to hear it said, "That is he."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's a very conservative person and has exceedingly good judgment. Usually, she's telling me, 'Don't do this! Mistake.' And this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37098]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's a very conservative person and has exceedingly good judgment. Usually, she's telling me, 'Don't do this! Mistake.' And this time, she said, 'I really think you should write this book, whether he wants you to or not.' To me, this was amazing. And she was right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good wine needs no bush ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good wine needs no bush]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should use praise to recognize what one is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22270]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should use praise to recognize what one is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  God is always present and always working towards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  God is always present and always working towards the life of the soul and its deliverance from captivity under flesh and blood. But this inward work of God, though never ceasing or altering, is yet always and only hindered by the activity of our own nature and faculties, by bad men through their obedience to earthly passions and by good men through their striving to be good in their own way, by their natural strength and a multiplicity of holy labours and contrivances. Both these sorts of people obstruct the work of God upon their souls. For we can cooperate with God no other way than by submitting to the work of God, and seeking, and leaving ourselves to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12217]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64152]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease,  Ah! little do you think upon   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease,  Ah! little do you think upon   The dangers of the seas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47235]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light tomorrow with today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light tomorrow with today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine.Yet always when I look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine.Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost utmost reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46729]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky,  Beheld by all, and everywhere,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky,  Beheld by all, and everywhere,   Bright prototypes on high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So full of artless jealousy is guilt It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23166]]></link><description><![CDATA[So full of artless jealousy is guilt It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're issuing crap at the speed of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36011]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're issuing crap at the speed of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing the truth, and telling it. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing the truth, and telling it. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/957]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposition is true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposition is true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59040]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to fill time is to waste it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to fill time is to waste it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it seems as far as it was prudent to bid man go. The "greater love than this" of which our Lord speaks, though He does not command it, is to give oneself for one's friends. And when one does this, or is ready to do this, prayer even for "us" seems too selfish -- and it is unnecessary, for we then possess all that God Himself can give us. The easy renunciation of self for the Beloved becomes the very breath of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thirsty PigeonA pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard. Not supposing it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Thirsty PigeonA pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard. Not supposing it to be only a picture, she flew towards it with a loud whir and unwittingly dashed against the signboard, jarring herself terribly. Having broken her wings by the blow, she fell to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders. Zeal should not outrun discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanlon's Razor:"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanlon's Razor:"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Geese appear high over us,pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,as in love or sleep, holdsthem to their way, clearin the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Geese appear high over us,pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,as in love or sleep, holdsthem to their way, clearin the ancient faith: what we needis here. And we pray, notfor new earth or heaven, but to bequiet in heart, and in eye,clear. What we need is here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the first thing I said when I got back in the locker room, I can't wait until Monday. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37598]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the first thing I said when I got back in the locker room, I can't wait until Monday. It's a big game, national TV.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism plus murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism plus murder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11333</guid></item></channel></rss>