<?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[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  There is a pride of faith, more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  There is a pride of faith, more unforgiveable and dangerous than the pride of the intellect. It reveals a split personality in which faith is "observed" and appraised, thus negating that unity born of a dying-unto-self, which is the definition of faith. To "value" faith is to turn it into a metaphysical magic, the advantages of which ought to be reserved for a spiritual elite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist Continuing a short series on authenticity:   There, right in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist Continuing a short series on authenticity:   There, right in the middle 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 well 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 mere 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/8507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26239]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2302]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails to pass the approval test with her parents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he came back to the club he had to cut back but he took it in his stride and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32830]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he came back to the club he had to cut back but he took it in his stride and I can't speak highly enough of what he has achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to leadership is servanthood. -John Maxwell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to leadership is servanthood. -John Maxwell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15570]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57497]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44591]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Older people are seen basically as doddery but dear, and young people perhaps as clever but callous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Older people are seen basically as doddery but dear, and young people perhaps as clever but callous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30044]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in Louisiana.] It may look from the outside as if they are stealing or breaking the law, ... when in fact some of them are trying to survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65868]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14775]]></link><description><![CDATA[An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we did very well. We had two major benefactors that really made sure all the women and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we did very well. We had two major benefactors that really made sure all the women and the children in the shelter got their wish list.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14283]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really fun. He's always thinking, so he has a lot to talk about. I had fun just listening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39365]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really fun. He's always thinking, so he has a lot to talk about. I had fun just listening to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   The mystery revealed, in a unique degree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   The mystery revealed, in a unique degree and form, in Christ's life, is really a universal spiritual human law: the law of suffering and sacrifice, as the one way to joy and possession, which has existed, though veiled till now, since the foundation of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chris [Henderson], our guitar player, has eight feet of water in his house, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chris [Henderson], our guitar player, has eight feet of water in his house,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are none of us infallible -- not even the youngest of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15063]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are none of us infallible -- not even the youngest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er  The devil himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51265]]></link><description><![CDATA[With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er  The devil himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is sitting on their hands. No-one wants to play with everyone calling a 25 basis points rate rise on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is sitting on their hands. No-one wants to play with everyone calling a 25 basis points rate rise on Wednesday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think you just focus day to day, week to week. He's been the first goalie in the past. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30067]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think you just focus day to day, week to week. He's been the first goalie in the past. He won't lose his focus. He'll play another 10 years in the NHL. Game-sharp is just puck after puck (in practice). Since his last game, he's done two hours each day on ice. I think it was a good spot on the road. Sometimes, when you've stayed out a long time, it's better on the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings:  Short is his joy; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46449]]></link><description><![CDATA[See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings:  Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound,   Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22526]]></link><description><![CDATA[A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you care for someone it's not all about being with them. It's about being there for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62948]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you care for someone it's not all about being with them. It's about being there for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to be instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the Living Water which Jesus Christ will give us and which alone can satisfy our souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Craft against vice I must apply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Craft against vice I must apply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21177]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12776</guid></item></channel></rss>