<?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[We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13987]]></link><description><![CDATA[We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless we know the difference between flowers and weeds, we are not fit to take care of a garden. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless we know the difference between flowers and weeds, we are not fit to take care of a garden. It is not enough to have truth planted in our minds. We must learn and labor to keep the ground clear of thorns and briars, follies and perversities, which have a wicked propensity to choke the word of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17401]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . . and then be cast from the highest slopes of Parnassus to the lower slopes of art's ever-growing dust-heap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas;  Whose flag has braved a thousand years,   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas;  Whose flag has braved a thousand years,   The battle and the breeze!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China has not only become a world major export country, but also an important import market ever since it adopted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36622]]></link><description><![CDATA[China has not only become a world major export country, but also an important import market ever since it adopted the reform and opening-up policies in 1978.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're playing a lot tougher, and we're kind of getting into a little routine. We want to try to attack ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39897]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're playing a lot tougher, and we're kind of getting into a little routine. We want to try to attack the post, we want to be timely with the shooting from the perimeter, and defensively we've picked up things a little bit. But by the same token, our schedule has not weakened a bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39897</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[Growth is likely to be lower in '98 than it was in '97. So, to re-balance monetary policy, you're going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth is likely to be lower in '98 than it was in '97. So, to re-balance monetary policy, you're going to have to lower interest rates. The question is by how much? At this point in time, probably a decrease of half a percentage point to three-quarters of a percentage point would make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., Das Aergste weiss die Welt von mir, und ich  Kann sagen, ich bin besser als mein Ruf.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27787]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back home, people are really, really friendly. We grew up playing the same games and doing the same things. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back home, people are really, really friendly. We grew up playing the same games and doing the same things. It's different here because we don't have the same connection with kids. We're homesick most of the time, but we know we're here for a purpose and you try and make your dream happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of the civilized world were organized in some sort of federalism, as the states of the American Union, for instance, are organized, there would be no international war as we know it ... The main obstacle is nationalism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19774]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  The witness has never failed. Repeatedly, the light has shone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  The witness has never failed. Repeatedly, the light has shone forth in the darkness, held aloft by hands that perished in the destruction of the institution that failed. Christians tend to defend the institution of their own creation with tenacity. It is institutional Christianity that has often shackled the Church... Many of the missionary institutions of the Church are expendable. They should always be treated as expendable.  ... Leonard M. Outerbridge, The Lost Churches of China July 24, 1996 Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  Men stand much upon the title of 'orthodox', by which is usually understood, not believing the doctrine of Christ or His apostles, but such opinions as are in vogue among such a party, such systems of divinity as have been compiled in haste by those whom we have in admiration; and whatever is not consonant to these little bodies of divinity, tho' possibly it agree well enough with the Word of God, is error and heresy; and whoever maintains it can hardly pass for a Christian among some angry and perverse people. I do not intend to plead for any error, but I would not have Christianity chiefly measured by matters of opinion. I know no such error and heresy as a wicked life... Of the two, I have more hopes of him that denies the divinity of Christ and lives otherwise soberly and righteously and godly in the world, than of the man who owns Christ to be the Son of God and lives like a child of the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A one hundred yard high tower still has its foundation on the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62822]]></link><description><![CDATA[A one hundred yard high tower still has its foundation on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45737]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41862]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a wreck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're just as good as we are. They look like West Point, just not as many of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33453]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're just as good as we are. They look like West Point, just not as many of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13518]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17396]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. [Ger., Der grosste Hass ist, wie die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. [Ger., Der grosste Hass ist, wie die grosste Tugend und die schlimmsten Hunde, still.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Cameron] was dazed, kind of not really there, ... I was like, 'Cam, can you hear me?' He mumbled, 'Yeah,' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41860]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Cameron] was dazed, kind of not really there, ... I was like, 'Cam, can you hear me?' He mumbled, 'Yeah,' but he wasn't there. You could tell he wasn't right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful. •Sophia Loren  Nothing's beautiful from every point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful. •Sophia Loren  Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. •Horace   Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. •George Brossin Méré   ...It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. •James Matthew Barrie   In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. •Christopher Morley   Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. •Charles Reade   Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. •Kin Hubbard   Beauty is not caused. It is. •Emily Dickinson   Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. •Edward Gibbon   My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter? •Kotomichi   Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. •Campbell  Champagne is the only wine a woman can drink and still remain beautiful. •Mme. de Pompadour  Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. •Pope  Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth. •Lazarus Long  Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar. •Shakespeare  It is good that the young are beautiful; it is the only advantage they have. •The Duchess of Windsor  Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short lived, and apt to have ague fits. •Erasmus               The beautiful are never desolate,               But someone always loves them. •Bailey   Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. •Ambrose Bierce   Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away. •Luis Cernuda   Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women. •Katherine Hepburn  A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. •Helen Rowland  There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. •Countess of Blessington  Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. •Johann von Schiller  When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. •Gregory I  The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman, any woman, with beautiful legs. •Marlene Dietrich  Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. •John Keats   I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? •Jean Kerr  The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt. •Anonymous  What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. •Father Andre   Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. •Aristotle   I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation. •Tyra Banks  Exuberance is beauty. •William Blake   Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful! •Bessie Delanay  As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. •Kahlil Gibran  Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. •Immermann  Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. •Socrates  Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now is the age of anxiety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now is the age of anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health food makes me sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health food makes me sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39153]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).   - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).   - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can directly measure water ice, and then we can fly right through the plume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32593]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can directly measure water ice, and then we can fly right through the plume.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890   In the first ages, [catechizing] was a work of long time; months, sometimes years, were devoted to the arduous task of disabusing the mind of the incipient Christian of its pagan errors, and of moulding it upon the Christian faith. The Scriptures indeed were at hand for the study of those who could avail themselves of them, but St. Iranaeus does not hesitate to speak of whole races who had been converted to Christianity, without being able to read them. To be unable to read or write was in those times no evidence of want of learning; the hermits of the deserts were, in one sense of the word, illiterate, yet the great St. Anthony, though he knew not letters, was a match in disputation for the learned philosophers who came to try him.  ... John Henry Newman, "What is a University?" August 12, 2000   Any single verse of the Bible, taken in isolation, may actually be dangerous to your spiritual health. Every part of it must be read in relation to the whole message.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21195]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5172]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ad astra [To the stars] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ad astra [To the stars]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This group for what we need might be as good a defensive group that we've brought in. They are guys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42686]]></link><description><![CDATA[This group for what we need might be as good a defensive group that we've brought in. They are guys with good character, strong kids who want to be a part of a championship and that's what we're going to help them accomplish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not going to play games about who's going to call who, but clearly these guys walked out. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38972]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not going to play games about who's going to call who, but clearly these guys walked out. They have to walk back in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49554]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I played a blank tape on full volume. The mime who lived next door complained. So I shot him with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I played a blank tape on full volume. The mime who lived next door complained. So I shot him with a gun with a silencer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nineties style isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nineties style isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat., Ille sinistrorsum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14160]]></link><description><![CDATA[One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat., Ille sinistrorsum hic dexrorsum abit, unus utrique  Error, sed variis illudit partibus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14160</guid></item></channel></rss>