<?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[Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get overthe fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get overthe fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time tofigure out whether you like it or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51210]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder is the basis of worship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder is the basis of worship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17054]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astrology, or when the stars enlighten illuminated who dazzle a bunch of lunatics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Astrology, or when the stars enlighten illuminated who dazzle a bunch of lunatics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is one Accipe, then twice to say, Dabo tibi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is one Accipe, then twice to say, Dabo tibi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saints need sinners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saints need sinners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Word of God is the informing power of the revelation of God in the finite world. It is not, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Word of God is the informing power of the revelation of God in the finite world. It is not, by any figure, to be identified with a book, or a temple, or a minister, or a shrine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   It is not possible ever to exhaust the mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   It is not possible ever to exhaust the mind of the Scriptures. It is a well that has no bottom.   St. John Chrysostom  September 14, 2002 Feast of the Holy Cross    Learned men and great scholars have devoted great effort and prolonged study to the Holy Scriptures... employing the gifts which God gives to every person who has the use of reason. This knowledge is good... but it does not bring with it any spiritual experience of God, for these graces are granted only to those who have a great love for Him. This fountain of love issues from our Lord alone, and no stranger may approach it. But knowledge of this kind is common to good and bad alike, since it can be acquired without love, ... and men of a worldly life are sometimes more knowledgeable than many true Christians although they do not possess this love. St. Paul describes this kind of knowledge: "If I had full knowledge of all things and knew all secrets, but had no love, I should be nothing." Some people who possess this knowledge become proud and misuse it in order to increase their personal reputation, worldly rank, honours and riches, when they should use it humbly to the praise of God and for the benefit of their fellow Christians in true charity. St. Paul says of this kind of knowledge: "Knowledge by itself stirs the heart with pride, but united to love it turns to edification." By itself this knowledge is like water, tasteless and cold. But if those who have it will offer it humbly to our Lord and ask for His grace, He will turn the water into wine with His blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53763]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might not see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17095]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might not see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Christ drew near to death, He Himself trembled. It was an experience of all His creation, but He had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8395]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Christ drew near to death, He Himself trembled. It was an experience of all His creation, but He had never felt it. To His humanity, His assumed flesh, it seemed terrible -- Gethsemane bears witness how terrible it seemed; but He passed into it for love of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55890]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52010]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51152]]></link><description><![CDATA[He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Horse AN ASS besought a Horse to spare him a small portion of his feed. Yes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Horse AN ASS besought a Horse to spare him a small portion of his feed. Yes, said the Horse; if any remains out of what I am noweating I will give it you for the sake of my own superiordignity, and if you will come when I reach my own stall in theevening, I will give you a little sack full of barley. The Assreplied, Thank you. But I can't think that you, who refuse me alittle matter now. will by and by confer on me a greaterbenefit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall, Dropped off gorged from a scheme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51692]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall, Dropped off gorged from a scheme which left us flaccid and drained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet soon fair Spring shall give another scene. And yellow cowslips gild the level green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet soon fair Spring shall give another scene. And yellow cowslips gild the level green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a fool who thinks by force or skill, To turn the current of a woman's will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51773]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a fool who thinks by force or skill, To turn the current of a woman's will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine!  'Twixt that and reason what a nice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22828]]></link><description><![CDATA[How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine!  'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier!   Forever sep'rate, yet forever near!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, being fed by us, you used us so As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird,  Useth the sparrow--did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10813]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, being fed by us, you used us so As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird,  Useth the sparrow--did oppress our nest; . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19932]]></link><description><![CDATA[There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a permanent reminder that medicine is not food. Hence a man’s reaction to monarchy is a kind of test. Monarchy can easily be ‘debunked;' but watch the faces, mark the accents of the debunkers. These are the men whose tap-root in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire equality, they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had started writing the fourth Whit Mosley book, ... I was 40 pages into it, and then Dutton asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37558]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had started writing the fourth Whit Mosley book, ... I was 40 pages into it, and then Dutton asked me if I would consider writing a standalone. The series novel can do a lot to build a loyal readership, but the standalone is sometimes easier for the publisher to market to a broader audience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66607]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A supreme social challenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A supreme social challenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is more precious than a piece of land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is more precious than a piece of land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the least in want who is the least covetous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51604]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the least in want who is the least covetous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conflict is the beginning of consciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65584]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. Those among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50427]]></link><description><![CDATA[[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4224</guid></item></channel></rss>