<?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[Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is honors foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is honors foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66002]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me--  (When fortune's malice   Lost her Calais)--   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me--  (When fortune's malice   Lost her Calais)--    Open my heart and you will see     Graved inside of it, "Italy."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8989]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 Continuing a short series on authenticity:   There is one growing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 Continuing a short series on authenticity:   There is one growing persuasion of the present age which I hope this book may somewhat serve to stem -- not by any argument, but by... a healthy up stirring ... of the imagination and the conscience. In these days, when men are so gladly hearing afresh that "in Him there is no darkness at all"; that God, therefore could not have created any man if He knew that he must live in torture to all eternity; and that His hatred to evil cannot be expressed by injustice, itself the one essence of evil, -- for certainly it would be nothing less than injustice to punish infinitely what was finitely committed, no sinner being capable of understanding the abstract enormity of what he does, -- in these days has a arisen another falsehood, less, yet very perilous: thousands of half-thinkers imagine that, since it is declared with such authority that hell is not everlasting, there is then no hell at all. To such folly, I, for one, have never given enticement or shelter. I see no hope for many, no way for the divine love to reach them, save through a very ghastly hell. Men have got to repent; there is no other escape for them, and no escape from that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19243]]></link><description><![CDATA[How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take;  Or else I doubt if Nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take;  Or else I doubt if Nature could   So fair a creature make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. "Religion" means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65561]]></link><description><![CDATA[I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing canrnbe both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12392]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64841]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of life we are in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15760]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of life we are in debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[neither the time, the inclination, nor the financial ability to fight each and every article that has appeared about me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40214]]></link><description><![CDATA[neither the time, the inclination, nor the financial ability to fight each and every article that has appeared about me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only people who never fail are those who never try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only people who never fail are those who never try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25062]]></link><description><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof,   With antique pillars massy proof,    And storied windows richly dight;     Casting a dim religious light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only rivalry is with my brother. He plays a lot now. He's getting a lot better. But I still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40314]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only rivalry is with my brother. He plays a lot now. He's getting a lot better. But I still like to take care of business against him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak to me of love,said St Francis tothe almond tree,and the tree blossomed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak to me of love,said St Francis tothe almond tree,and the tree blossomed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because your trained for something doesn't mean your prepared for it. -Anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because your trained for something doesn't mean your prepared for it. -Anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This assassination will not undermine our efforts to impose law and public order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41286]]></link><description><![CDATA[This assassination will not undermine our efforts to impose law and public order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most enjoyable thing for me is having the feeling of being in pure nature where you're there and usually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most enjoyable thing for me is having the feeling of being in pure nature where you're there and usually alone. It's like you're the first one to ever be there. Everything is perfectly pristine and very quiet -- snow dampens all the sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  "O Lord, behold the man who made the nails that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6883]]></link><description><![CDATA[... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  "O Lord, behold the man who made the nails that pierced Thy feet!"  The Master laid a thin, scarred hand upon the shame-bowed head.  "They were good nails," he said...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42069]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61349]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This matter has already become a national issue that concerns the whole of Iranian society and I can assure you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35729]]></link><description><![CDATA[This matter has already become a national issue that concerns the whole of Iranian society and I can assure you that no Iranian government will make a compromise on this issue,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of them are starting at an even playing field. They've never played the game. These girls only have got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of them are starting at an even playing field. They've never played the game. These girls only have got a couple weeks of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As any policeman today will tell you, it's not the idea of getting the first shot off, it's hitting your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37076]]></link><description><![CDATA[As any policeman today will tell you, it's not the idea of getting the first shot off, it's hitting your target. Often the first guy that shoots misses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a team, we saw January as a new slate. We've had a lot of injuries. Looking back to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38249]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a team, we saw January as a new slate. We've had a lot of injuries. Looking back to the beginning of the season this is not the same team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52441]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bottom line is this -- for how long can the military remain restrained? That we are just around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bottom line is this -- for how long can the military remain restrained? That we are just around the corner from a major confrontation is not in doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61057]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically we have seen strong home improvement spending in the wake of a slow economy. The stock market has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically we have seen strong home improvement spending in the wake of a slow economy. The stock market has been less secure in the last 18 months or so than it had previously been. So instead of the stock market, people were investing in their homes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nursing home and hospital share the dining room, but that's all. We are in space that was vacant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nursing home and hospital share the dining room, but that's all. We are in space that was vacant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[His posse of longtime pals provides another outlet.] They carry on like your classic 'boys will be boys,' ... knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29123]]></link><description><![CDATA[[His posse of longtime pals provides another outlet.] They carry on like your classic 'boys will be boys,' ... knows who his friends are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot step into the same river twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64893]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot step into the same river twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64893</guid></item></channel></rss>