<?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[It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be  Ere one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be  Ere one can say 'It lightens.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off your goals. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off your goals. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we look out towards this love that moves the stars and stirs in the child's heart and claims our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7789]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we look out towards this love that moves the stars and stirs in the child's heart and claims our total allegiance, and remember that this alone is Reality and we are only real so far as we conform to its demands, we see our human situation from a fresh angle; and we perceive that it is both more humble and dependent, and more splendid, than we had dreamed. We are surrounded and penetrated by great spiritual forces of which we hardly know anything. Yet the outward events of our life cannot be understood, except in their relation to that unseen and intensely living world, the Infinite Charity which penetrates and supports us, the God whom we resist and yet for whom we thirst; who is ever at work, transforming the self-centred desire of the natural creature into the wide spreading, outpouring love of the citizen of Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Jesus... did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Jesus... did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or all the things He would have liked to do, but He did finish the work which God gave Him to do. The only alternative to frustration is to be sure that we are doing what God wants. Nothing substitutes for knowing that this day, this hour, in this place, we are doing the will of the Father. Then and only then can we think of all the other unfinished tasks with equanimity, and leave them with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children have more need of models than critics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children have more need of models than critics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13580]]></link><description><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, His back to earth, his face to heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57142]]></link><description><![CDATA[His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, His back to earth, his face to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64908]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17487]]></link><description><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place;  Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10733]]></link><description><![CDATA[A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place;  Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools,   Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a couple of conversations (Monday) but there's nothing to report. At this point, I can't read the situation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35906]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a couple of conversations (Monday) but there's nothing to report. At this point, I can't read the situation at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the position, but the disposition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21640]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the position, but the disposition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini esse dixerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18083]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as eternal salvation--come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proof of the pudding is in the eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proof of the pudding is in the eating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably will see fewer people travel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40909]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably will see fewer people travel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every event is a judgment of God. [Ger., Denn aller Ausgang ist ein Gottesurheil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23546]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every event is a judgment of God. [Ger., Denn aller Ausgang ist ein Gottesurheil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundation of justice is good faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23600]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundation of justice is good faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The outstanding issue is who will pay for the cost overruns. You don't know what you will hit when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The outstanding issue is who will pay for the cost overruns. You don't know what you will hit when you start to tunnel. There are a lot of unknowns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9636]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative activity could be described as a type of learningprocess where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creative activity could be described as a type of learningprocess where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20243]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. •G. K. Chesterton  Often a noble face hides filthy ways. •Euripides  The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mary is already a winner, with a free trip to Las Vegas worth a few grand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mary is already a winner, with a free trip to Las Vegas worth a few grand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44025]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280   Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside -- this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In original discussions, we were talking about an elevated system. They are not huge adjustments but there are adjustments that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33939]]></link><description><![CDATA[In original discussions, we were talking about an elevated system. They are not huge adjustments but there are adjustments that would have to be made. They have set aside some money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess it's just one of those things. I think we've played some really good games against the Eastern teams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28816]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess it's just one of those things. I think we've played some really good games against the Eastern teams because we respect them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14521]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet, cable TV, and computer games, account for much more of the trend away from books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37560]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet, cable TV, and computer games, account for much more of the trend away from books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraudsters use current affairs to create legitimacy. The holidays are a great reason to send people email to try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fraudsters use current affairs to create legitimacy. The holidays are a great reason to send people email to try to scam them into giving up their information.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7663]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! Who has written such volumes of stuff!  Some think him ill-tempered and queer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44611]]></link><description><![CDATA[How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! Who has written such volumes of stuff!  Some think him ill-tempered and queer,   But a few think him pleasant enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something terrible happens, and you might say, "God help us!", or "Jesus Christ!" -- the poor, crippled prayers that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something terrible happens, and you might say, "God help us!", or "Jesus Christ!" -- the poor, crippled prayers that are hidden in the minor blasphemies of people for whom in every sense God is dead, except that they still have to speak to him, if only through clenched teeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's wilderness is another man's theme park ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61577]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's wilderness is another man's theme park]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61577</guid></item></channel></rss>