<?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 never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've helped with what I've needed, here and at home, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37368]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've helped with what I've needed, here and at home,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43921]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is showing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is showing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50772]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve  By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26471]]></link><description><![CDATA[This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve  By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath   Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze,    Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird     Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.      Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed       The air is delicate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. -ALBERT SCHWEITZER.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5364]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has been figured out, except how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has been figured out, except how to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12352]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but what’s in it for all of us? And when you ask that simple question - what’s in it for all of us? - the direction not taken in America could not be more clear or compelling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'outsider' who knows nothing of the mixture of tradition, conviction, honest difference, and hidden resentment, that lies behind the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 'outsider' who knows nothing of the mixture of tradition, conviction, honest difference, and hidden resentment, that lies behind the divisions of the Christian Church sees clearly the advantage of a united Christian front and cannot see why the Churches cannot 'get together'. The problem is doubtless complicated, for there are many honest differences held with equal sincerity, but it is only made insoluble because the different denominations are (possibly unconsciously) imagining God to be Roman or Anglican or Baptist or Methodist or Presbyterian or what have you. If they could see beyond their little inadequate god, and glimpse the reality of God, they might even laugh a little and perhaps weep a little. The result would be a unity that actually does transcend differences, instead of ignoring them with public politeness and private contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wife is the key of the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49932]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wife is the key of the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These Winter nights against my window-pane Nature with busy pencil draws designs  Of ferns and blossoms and fine spray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61704]]></link><description><![CDATA[These Winter nights against my window-pane Nature with busy pencil draws designs  Of ferns and blossoms and fine spray of pines,   Oak-leaf and acorn and fantastic vines,    Which she will make when summer comes again--     Quaint arabesques in argent, flat and cold,      Like curious Chinese etchings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids have their school team, and then they have their summer team. They play the league games hard, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids have their school team, and then they have their summer team. They play the league games hard, but then they come together after the game is over and are friends again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site;  Make former times shake hands with latter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site;  Make former times shake hands with latter,   And that which was before come after;    But those that write in rhyme still make     The one verse for the other's sake;      For one for sense, and one for rhyme,       I think's sufficient at one time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engagedin work we enjoy on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21664]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engagedin work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established forourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. Itmakes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did as many as we felt we could do in a short period of time and still do it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did as many as we felt we could do in a short period of time and still do it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is made more sacred by adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is made more sacred by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. [Lat., Qui dedit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. [Lat., Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narret; qui accepit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11149]]></link><description><![CDATA[If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assertintegrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,the creatures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assertintegrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can become a leader only if one is supported by an ideology which makes other people tractable and accommodating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47181]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can become a leader only if one is supported by an ideology which makes other people tractable and accommodating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my easement sing,  Though it should prove a farewell lay   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my easement sing,  Though it should prove a farewell lay   And this our parting spring.    . . . .     Then, little Bird, this boon confer,      Come, and my requiem sing,       Nor fail to be the harbinger        Of everlasting spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5972]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew what to do, we just had to calm down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35497]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew what to do, we just had to calm down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29544]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. -Golda Meir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2609]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. -Golda Meir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us do not consciously look at movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us do not consciously look at movies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One real world is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62221]]></link><description><![CDATA[One real world is enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over his patient, then and not till then to send for the minister, not so much to inquire into the man's condition and to give him suitable advice as to minister comfort and to speak peace to him at a venture. But let me tell you that herein you put an extremely difficult task upon us, in expecting that we should pour wine and oil into the wound before it be searched, and speak smooth and comfortable things to a man that is but just brought to a sense of the long course of a lewd and wicked life impenitently continued in. Alas! what comfort can we give to men in such a case? We are loth to drive them to despair; and yet we must not destroy them by presumption; pity and good nature do strongly tempt us to make the best of their case and to give them all the little hopes which with any kind of reason we can --and God knows it is but very little that we can give to such persons upon good ground, for it all depends upon the degree and sincerity of their repentance, which God only knows, and we can but guess at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16367]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competitiveness has been a big thing for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistle, and she'll come to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whistle, and she'll come to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  We can reach the point where it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  We can reach the point where it becomes possible for us to recognize and understand Original Sin, that dark counter-centre of evil in our nature -- that is to say, though it is not our nature, it is of it -- that something within us which rejoices when disaster befalls the very cause we are trying to serve, or misfortune overtakes even those we love. Life in God is not an escape from this, but a way to gain full insight concerning it. It is not our depravity which forces a fictitious religious explanation upon us, but the experience of religious reality which forces the "Night Side" out into the light. It is when we stand in the righteous all-seeing light of love that we can dare to look at, admit, and consciously suffer under this something in us which wills disaster, misfortune, defeat to everything outside the sphere of our narrowest self interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a definite softening. Oil prices are starting to hit the middle-income consumer. It's a psychological thing. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32879]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a definite softening. Oil prices are starting to hit the middle-income consumer. It's a psychological thing. They read about it every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This additional step will provide an extra layer of protection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31105]]></link><description><![CDATA[This additional step will provide an extra layer of protection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31105</guid></item></channel></rss>