<?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[Who hath no head, needes no heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath no head, needes no heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle  It is often said with a sneer that the God of Israel was only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle  It is often said with a sneer that the God of Israel was only a God of Battles, "a mere barbaric Lord of Hosts" pitted in rivalry against other gods only as their envious foe. Well it is for the world that He was indeed a God of Battles. Well it is for us that He was to all the rest only a rival and a foe. In the ordinary way, it would have been only too easy for them to have achieved the desolate disaster of conceiving Him as a friend. It would have been only too easy for them to have seen Him stretching out His hands in love and reconciliation, embracing Baal and kissing the painted face of Astarte... It would have been easy enough for His worshipers to follow the enlightened course of Syncretism and the pooling of all the pagan traditions. It is obvious indeed that His followers were always sliding down this easy slope; and it required the almost demoniac energy of certain inspired demagogues, who testified to the divine unity in words that are still like winds of inspiration and ruin, [to stop them]. The more we really understand of the ancient conditions that contributed to the final culture of the Faith, the more we shall have a real and even a realistic reverence for the greatness of the Prophets of Israel. As it was, while the whole world melted into this mass of confused mythology, this Deity who is called tribal and narrow, precisely because He was what is called tribal and narrow, preserved the primary religion of all mankind. He was tribal enough to be universal. He was as narrow as the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26586]]></link><description><![CDATA[One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that sends a foole expects one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49392]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that sends a foole expects one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said I'm so proud of my daughter, and I love you and dad so much. That was the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39305]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said I'm so proud of my daughter, and I love you and dad so much. That was the last conversation I had. I didn't get to hold him in my arms before he left. It just hurts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61086]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow,  And every day, for food or play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1979]]></link><description><![CDATA[And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow,  And every day, for food or play,   Came to the mariner's hollo!    "God save thee, ancient Mariner!     From the fiends that plague thus thee!--      Why look'st thou so?"--"With my cross-bow       I shot the Albatross."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24643]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833  It seems to be an opinion pretty generally prevalent, that kindness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833  It seems to be an opinion pretty generally prevalent, that kindness and sweetness of temper; sympathizing, benevolent, and generous affections; attention to what in the world's estimation are the domestic, relative, and social duties; and, above all, a life of general activity and usefulness, may well be allowed, in our imperfect state, to make up for the defect of what, in strict propriety of speech, is termed religion. Many, indeed, will unreservedly declare, and more will hint, the opinion that the difference between the qualities above mentioned and religion, is rather a verbal or logical, than a real and essential difference; for in truth, what are they but religion in substance if not in name? Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties? We do not deny that, in the general mass of society, and particularly in the lower orders, such conduct and tempers can not be diffused and maintained by any other medium than that of religion. But if the end be effected, surely it is only an unnecessary refinement to dispute about the means. It is even to forget your own principles; and to refuse its just place to solid, practical virtue, while you assign too high a value to speculative opinions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's always pretty obvious to most of the public when something was done with heart and mind. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's always pretty obvious to most of the public when something was done with heart and mind. You can't fake it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46675]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59035]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25265]]></link><description><![CDATA[People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're devoted to giving children a chance to have a full camp experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31130]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're devoted to giving children a chance to have a full camp experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43493]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole worl's in a state o' chassis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52676]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of a good leader is to know when it's time to follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of a good leader is to know when it's time to follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away with him, away with him! He speaks Latin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Away with him, away with him! He speaks Latin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who ape the saint and play the sinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37182]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10671]]></link><description><![CDATA[With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20673]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention and a general fond regard to God, which I may call an actual presence of God -- or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with God, which often causes in me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great, that I am forced to use means to moderate them, and to prevent their appearance to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58216]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5153]]></link><description><![CDATA[And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7944]]></link><description><![CDATA[One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the Presence of God; and , being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wonderings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from hardening our position, ... I think it's fair to say we have been flexible and forthcoming in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from hardening our position, ... I think it's fair to say we have been flexible and forthcoming in our negotiating stance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There won't be a lot of police patrols. Runners will be out there with their teams and hopefully acting in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42030]]></link><description><![CDATA[There won't be a lot of police patrols. Runners will be out there with their teams and hopefully acting in a safe manner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without promotion something terrible happens... Nothing! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without promotion something terrible happens... Nothing!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We send our thoughts and prayers to the family. We ask people for their own safety to stay away from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We send our thoughts and prayers to the family. We ask people for their own safety to stay away from railroad tracks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive,  Where, housed beside their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive,  Where, housed beside their might honey-comb,   They dream their polity shall long survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52525]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52525</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 have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61317]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confident that we can penetrate any enemy defenses with our missiles. We know that we are more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11827]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confident that we can penetrate any enemy defenses with our missiles. We know that we are more than the equal of any nation in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust  That what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17838]]></link><description><![CDATA[What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust  That what will come, and must come, shall come well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17838</guid></item></channel></rss>