<?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[Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42844]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50384]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12027]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. [Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. [Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. [Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natura quam illa quae ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. [Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natura quam illa quae arte perfecta sunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Sin is not only manifested in certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom -- unaccompanied by any vicious act -- are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public interest. The traditional balance between those two has become destabilized. Economic reality has taken over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's high and low (culture), and we're casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; it's not like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's high and low (culture), and we're casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; it's not like we're bringing them some obscure things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42479]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42479</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[We've had a lot of nervous energy going on. We've been itching to get our hands on a ball and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39639]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a lot of nervous energy going on. We've been itching to get our hands on a ball and finally get out on this court, the one we've seen in our locker room for four years now. It's just really amazing to get out there and see what it's like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65888]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, I stole my little brother's toys and strapped them to the hood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, I stole my little brother's toys and strapped them to the hood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11340]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52045]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24250]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three signs of great men are -- generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17258]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three signs of great men are -- generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49414]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Book and Heart Shall never part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45567]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Book and Heart Shall never part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  The type ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  The type of Judaism in which Paul had grown up had become largely traditional: the word of the Lord, the Rabbis held, came to the prophets of old, but we can only preserve and interpret the truth they handed down. Jesus Christ, with a confidence that to the timid traditionalism of His time appeared blasphemous, asserted that He knew the Father and was prepared to let others into that knowledge. He did so, not by handing down a new tradition about God, but by making others sharers in His own attitude to God. This is what Paul means by "having the mind of Christ." It was this clear, unquestioning conviction that gave Paul his power as a missionary: but he expected it also in his converts. To them too "the world of knowledge" came "by the same Spirit". He prayed that God would give them a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. Such knowledge is, as Paul freely grants, only partial, but, so far as it goes, it is real, personal knowledge. In friendship between men there is a mutual knowledge which is never complete or free from mystery: yet you can know with a certainty nothing could shake, that your friend is "not the man to do such a thing", or that such-and-such a thing that you have heard is "just like him." You have a real knowledge which gives you a criterion. Such is the knowledge the Christian has of his Father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51273]]></link><description><![CDATA[One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To simplify complications is the first essential of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/996]]></link><description><![CDATA[To simplify complications is the first essential of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the 'Red Queen effect' -- you've got to run twice as fast just to stay in place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the 'Red Queen effect' -- you've got to run twice as fast just to stay in place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15977]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure care's an enemy to life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51523]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure care's an enemy to life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should remember that saying 'I love you' is only a beginning. We need to say it, we need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should remember that saying 'I love you' is only a beginning. We need to say it, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to show it. We need to both express and demonstrate love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59100]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows--  The best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows--  The best I had, a princess wrought it me--   And I did never ask it you again;    And with my hand at midnight held your head,     And like the watchful minutes to the hour,      Still and anon cheered up the heavy time,       Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hates vice hates men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60540]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hates vice hates men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas the night before Christman, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring,--not even a mouse:  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8642]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas the night before Christman, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring,--not even a mouse:  The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,   In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17364]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10019]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7383]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7383</guid></item></channel></rss>