<?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[Candor is the brightest gem of criticism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candor is the brightest gem of criticism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18570]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which we go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incredible. Incredible. I told him he looks handsome. His face has thinned down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Incredible. Incredible. I told him he looks handsome. His face has thinned down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The major components of inflation for us are energy costs and housing costs and medical costs, and I don't see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The major components of inflation for us are energy costs and housing costs and medical costs, and I don't see any major break in any of these. I wouldn't be surprised to see still 3.5 percent to 4 percent CPI for us for this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build me a shrine, and I could kneel To rural Gods, or prostrate fall;  Did I not see, did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Build me a shrine, and I could kneel To rural Gods, or prostrate fall;  Did I not see, did I not feel.   That One Great Spirit governs all.    O Heaven, permit that I may lie     Where o'er my corse green branches wave;      And those who from life's tumults fly       With kindred feelings press my grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46392]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those raremoments when we are stirred by an awareness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those raremoments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higherand greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by aforce and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confidentand free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves tobe taken over by our unquestioning self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49790]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22730]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28303]]></link><description><![CDATA[For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No injury can be complained of by a consenting party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50555]]></link><description><![CDATA[No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26138]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must needs go that the devil drives. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55717]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must needs go that the devil drives. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is home, though it be never so homely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is home, though it be never so homely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only mark your sunny hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only mark your sunny hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday  There is joy and strength, of course, in this holy food and drink, but it is also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday  There is joy and strength, of course, in this holy food and drink, but it is also an inevitable joining forces with the vast Scheme of reconciliation and redemption. Now there is something in our natural selves that may well make us wary of such a contact. The man who in his heart intends to go on being selfish or proud, or who has already decided how far his Christian convictions should carry him, is probably obeying a sound instinct when he keeps away from this glorious but perilous Sacrament. For, if the truth be told, men are often willing to put their trust in a god who in the end must be triumphant, simply because they want to be on the winning side; but they are not nearly so ready to bear any part of the cost of that winning. Yet the fellowship of the broken bread and the poured-out wine can mean no less than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee is rich enough that wants nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee is rich enough that wants nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24427]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9629]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know which one of us hates to lose more. I can't stand it when you have to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know which one of us hates to lose more. I can't stand it when you have to go over there and shake (the other team's) hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57786]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene, followed by the transient and embarrassed phantom of Lord Goderich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene, followed by the transient and embarrassed phantom of Lord Goderich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It happens, ... It's happened a couple of times to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28248]]></link><description><![CDATA[It happens, ... It's happened a couple of times to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43736]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64132]]></link><description><![CDATA[We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us. It is in proportion, as we are known to him that we find our real being and identity in Christ. We know him in and through ourselves in so far as his truth is the source of our being and his merciful love is the very heart of our life and existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19617</guid></item></channel></rss>