<?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[Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18709]]></link><description><![CDATA[If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12234]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24490]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3264]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know how men in exile feed on dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know how men in exile feed on dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11471]]></link><description><![CDATA[True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20721]]></link><description><![CDATA[for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never valued this poor seat of England, And therefore, living hence, did give ourself  To barbarous license; as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never valued this poor seat of England, And therefore, living hence, did give ourself  To barbarous license; as 'tis ever common   That men are merriest when they are from home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People begin to gain weight as they become older. It's only natural that they gain weight if they eat the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39651]]></link><description><![CDATA[People begin to gain weight as they become older. It's only natural that they gain weight if they eat the same amount of food as they did when they were young. They need to know that their basal metabolic rate decreases with age. Gaining weight means not only increasing the amount of subcutaneous fat in the body, but visceral as well, and this is the major factor in lifestyle-related diseases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/765]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let 'em wonder. I never believed in givin' them too much of me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Whilst you are divided betwixt God and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Whilst you are divided betwixt God and the world, you have neither the pleasures of Religion, nor the pleasures of the world, but are always in the uneasiness of a divided state of heart. You have only so much Religion as serves to disquiet you, to show you a handwriting on the wall, to interrupt your pleasures, and to appear as a death's-head at all your feasts, but not Religion enough to give you a taste and feeling of its pleasures. You dare not wholly neglect Religion, but then you take no more than is just sufficient to keep you from being a terror to yourself, and you are as loth to be very good as you are fearful to be very bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that is warned is half armed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50961]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that is warned is half armed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25807]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues opening. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4437]]></link><description><![CDATA[This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew what we had to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37367]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew what we had to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're ready to play them when the puck drops, and we're expecting a battle for 60 minutes. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32573]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're ready to play them when the puck drops, and we're expecting a battle for 60 minutes. When we do play 60 minutes, we're a tough team to beat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will file a legal complaint against all of those people behind this conference, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39787]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will file a legal complaint against all of those people behind this conference,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44992]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their familiescame and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, So. What did you think?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12807]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9164]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16150]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twenty-seven points is a lot to give up in a half, not to mention in one quarter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twenty-seven points is a lot to give up in a half, not to mention in one quarter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing that they do before they do anything is interventions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing that they do before they do anything is interventions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main thing it is about; like reading Burke with no interest in politics, or reading the Aeneid with no interest in Rome... But there is a saner sense in which the Bible -- since it is, after all, literature -- cannot properly be read except as literature, and the different parts of it as the different sorts of literature they are. Most emphatically, the Psalms must be read as poems -- as lyrics, with all the licenses and all the formalities, the hyperboles, the emotional rather than logical connections, which are proper to lyric poetry... Otherwise we shall miss what is in them and think we see what is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53054]]></link><description><![CDATA[In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27242]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  Even the most traditional theologian will be anxious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  Even the most traditional theologian will be anxious to point out that the classical images which have been used, with more or less success, to depict different aspects of the Redemption -- the winning of a battle, the liberation of captives, the payment of a fine or debt, the curing of a disease, and so on -- are not to be interpreted literally, any more than, when we say that the eternal Word "came down from Heaven", we are describing a process of spatial translation. For here we are dealing with processes and events which, by the nature of the case, cannot be precisely described in everyday language...  The matter is quite different with such a statement as that Christ was born of the Virgin Mary; for, whatever aspects of the Incarnation outstrip the descriptive power of ordinary language, this at least is plainly statable in it. It means that Jesus was conceived in his mother's womb without previous sexual intercourse on her part with any male human being, and this is a straightforward statement which is either true or false. To say that the birth... of Jesus Christ cannot simply be thought of as a biological event, and to add that this is [not] what the Virgin Birth means, is a plain misuse of language; and no amount of talk about the appealing character of the "Christmas myth" can validly gloss this over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people are the ones who are entitled to choose who occupies elected office, not the party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people are the ones who are entitled to choose who occupies elected office, not the party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30731</guid></item></channel></rss>