<?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[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[The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15307]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16359]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might,  With magic might, my own sweet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12874]]></link><description><![CDATA[In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might,  With magic might, my own sweet love,   Into my little room above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13261]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Idle youth, a needy Age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49120]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Idle youth, a needy Age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Wilt creep in service where it cannot go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Wilt creep in service where it cannot go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. In mylife, what I want and what I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. In mylife, what I want and what I need are exactly the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;  The rose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51119]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;  The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,   And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome. [Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome. [Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's partly because when we lost at Bonneville last week we didn't run our stuff. We were three passes and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39757]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's partly because when we lost at Bonneville last week we didn't run our stuff. We were three passes and a shot. We've got to get some movement to score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see levels below 17,500 as very attractive for bargain-hunting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see levels below 17,500 as very attractive for bargain-hunting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future of junk e-mail is that you need a receptive audience, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future of junk e-mail is that you need a receptive audience,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the spiritual perplexity which exercised so many of the rarest souls of the nineteenth century, God appeared as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8080]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the spiritual perplexity which exercised so many of the rarest souls of the nineteenth century, God appeared as a Being whom men desired to find but could not. But such a formula, though it truly represented one side of their situation, can never represent the whole of any human situation. For God is also a Being whom it ill suits any of us to find but from whom we cannot escape. Part of the reason why men cannot find God is that there is that in Him which they do not desire to find, so that the God whom they are seeking and cannot find is not the God who truly is. Perhaps we could not fail to find God, if it were really God whom we were seeking. And indeed the deepest reality of the situation is that contained in the discovery, which alone is likely at last to resolve our perplexity, that when we were so distressfully seeking that which was not really God, the true God had already found us, though at first we did not know that it was He by whom we had been found. There is a saying, "Be careful what you seek; you might find it." And some who have sought God only as a complacent ally of their own ambitions have found Him a consuming fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you so love the truth and the right that you welcome, or at least submit willingly to, the idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you so love the truth and the right that you welcome, or at least submit willingly to, the idea of an exposure of what in you is yet unknown to yourself -- an exposure that may redound to the glory of the truth by making you ashamed and humbled?... Are you willing to be made glad that you were wrong when you thought others were wrong?... We may trust God with our past as heartily as with our future. It will not hurt us so long as we do not try to hide things, so long as we are ready to bow our heads in hearty shame where it is fit that we should be ashamed. For to be ashamed is a holy and blessed thing. Shame is a thing to shame only those who want to appear, not those who want to be. Shame is to shame those who want to pass their examination, not those who would get into the heart of things... To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shrine of the mighty! can it be, That this is all remains of thee? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shrine of the mighty! can it be, That this is all remains of thee?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10008]]></link><description><![CDATA[My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30029]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the everyday lives. . . . With the older generation it's more foreign to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a pretty flimflam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48518]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a pretty flimflam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.Elves are terrific. They beget terror.The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.No one ever said elves are nice.Elves are bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a very demanding profession. There?s a need to be accurate, and if people keep running ragged, there?s this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37763]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a very demanding profession. There?s a need to be accurate, and if people keep running ragged, there?s this sense of burnout. We know our people need to rest and recover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48798]]></link><description><![CDATA[No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65948]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tortoise and the EagleA tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Tortoise and the EagleA tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly. An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air. I will give you, she said, all the riches of the Red Sea. I will teach you to fly then, said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces. The Tortoise exclaimed in the moment of death: I have deserved my present fate; for what had I to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the earth?' If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in a country like the USA where fitness has become an obsession, most people exercising do not seem to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in a country like the USA where fitness has become an obsession, most people exercising do not seem to think it illogical to drive automobiles to gyms while doing their best to avoid walking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the jasmine flower in her fair young breast, (O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmine flower!)  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23125]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the jasmine flower in her fair young breast, (O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmine flower!)  And the one bird singing alone to his nest.   And the one star over the tower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15771]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. Stipendiary clergy cut off by training and life from that common experience are constantly struggling to get close to the laity by wearing lay clothing, sharing in lay amusements, and organizing lay clubs; but they never quite succeed. To get close to men, it is necessary really to share their experience, and to share their experience is to share it by being in it, not merely to come as near to it as possible without being in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to work on moving, setting screens and shot selection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32527]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to work on moving, setting screens and shot selection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27235]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955   There is no wrath that stands between God and us, but what is awakened in the dark fire of our own fallen nature; and to quench this wrath, and not His own, God gave His only begotten Son to be made man. God has no more wrath in Himself now than He had before the creation, when He had only Himself to love... And it was solely to quench this wrath, awakened in the human soul, that the blood of the Son of God was necessary; because nothing but a life and birth, derived from Him into the human soul, could change this darkened root of a self-tormenting fire into an amiable image of the Holy Trinity as it was at first created.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doug Melvin's contract is absolutely being extended, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doug Melvin's contract is absolutely being extended,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19]]></link><description><![CDATA[We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With any disease in wildlife, there are so many factors, getting a good handle on it can be difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41842]]></link><description><![CDATA[With any disease in wildlife, there are so many factors, getting a good handle on it can be difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5119]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose toput energy into something can be remarkable. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21450]]></link><description><![CDATA[The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose toput energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21450</guid></item></channel></rss>