<?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[I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57024]]></link><description><![CDATA[There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24715]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First thoughts are not always the best. [It., Sempre il miglior non e il parer primiero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59190]]></link><description><![CDATA[First thoughts are not always the best. [It., Sempre il miglior non e il parer primiero.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4736]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest,  Till vernal suns and vernal gales ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest,  Till vernal suns and vernal gales   Shall kiss once more her fragrant breast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the best medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the best medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accessories are important and becoming more and more important every day, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accessories are important and becoming more and more important every day,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58011]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language helps form the limits of our reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language helps form the limits of our reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise... it's a consistent reward for victory!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15020]]></link><description><![CDATA[To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ring flies a long way because it's so thin. It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ring flies a long way because it's so thin. It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness world record.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18582]]></link><description><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   But strong for service still, and unimpair'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.  [Lat., Heureux qui, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.  [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere   Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is an orientation of spirit, an orientation of theheart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is an orientation of spirit, an orientation of theheart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but thecertainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21932</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/7092]]></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  May I be patient! It is so difficult to make real what one believes, and to make these trials, as they are intended, real blessings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57340]]></link><description><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think gas prices have had a definite impact on people who do not have a specific destination planned in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40828]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think gas prices have had a definite impact on people who do not have a specific destination planned in advance, ... A lot of the fall foliage travelers are seniors. Because their budgets are impacted more dramatically, I don't think they'll be traveling as much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47301]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10624]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that charity begins at home" And his, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that charity begins at home" And his, I presume., is of that domestic sort which never stirs abroad at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The radical failure in so-called religion is that its way is from man to God. Starting with man, it seeks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The radical failure in so-called religion is that its way is from man to God. Starting with man, it seeks to rise to God; and there is no road that way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43795]]></link><description><![CDATA[See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that it saw as priorities 10 years ago, they may still be priorities, but they aren't necessarily the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things that it saw as priorities 10 years ago, they may still be priorities, but they aren't necessarily the only priorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't take a photograph, you make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3277]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't take a photograph, you make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our necessities are few but our wants are endless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:  The prince my brother hath outgrown me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18402]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:  The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65439]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5921]]></link><description><![CDATA[What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder why he shot me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder why he shot me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47090]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27012]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47298]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24866</guid></item></channel></rss>