<?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[He who begs timidly courts a refusal. [Lat., Qui timide rogat,  Docet negare.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3931]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who begs timidly courts a refusal. [Lat., Qui timide rogat,  Docet negare.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40524]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be cheerful, if you are wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be cheerful, if you are wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I want your opinion I'll give it to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44962]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941  What is said in the passage [James 2:14 ff.] is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941  What is said in the passage [James 2:14 ff.] is like a two coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached" and the other says, "Not good for passage". Works are not good for passage; but faith detached from works is not saving faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66433]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds that they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds that they are in the right in religion than the inclination they find in themselves to hate and persecute them whom they suppose to be in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food there was none, Shelter there was none but love was there in plenty, Hence I was the richest man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food there was none, Shelter there was none but love was there in plenty, Hence I was the richest man in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most curious offspring of shame is shyness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56776]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only little people pay taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only little people pay taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65325]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had fun with it, ... I've been called everything from his grandson to his great-nephew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had fun with it, ... I've been called everything from his grandson to his great-nephew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things may happen when we meet someone: either we become friends or we try to convince that person to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things may happen when we meet someone: either we become friends or we try to convince that person to accept our beliefs. The same thing happens when a hot coal meets another piece of coal: it either shares its fire with it or is overwhelmed by the other`s size and is extinguished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16746]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She came to this country to do her job as a journalist and not anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34933]]></link><description><![CDATA[She came to this country to do her job as a journalist and not anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are without a great player like Gilbert Arenas, the other guys have to step up and play at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31929]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are without a great player like Gilbert Arenas, the other guys have to step up and play at the top of their games. Tonight was a total team effort. We got a lot of energy, we played great defense, we moved the ball and we made sure that everybody got shots in. When we do that, it makes the game a lot of fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amongst good men two men suffice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amongst good men two men suffice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63580]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50434]]></link><description><![CDATA[But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sacred Dove a quill did lend From her high-soaring wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sacred Dove a quill did lend From her high-soaring wing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Country : Dolly Parton continues her roots revival with] Those Were the Days, ... Tough All Over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35337]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Country : Dolly Parton continues her roots revival with] Those Were the Days, ... Tough All Over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conscious water saw its God and blushed.   - Richard Crashaw, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61679]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conscious water saw its God and blushed.   - Richard Crashaw,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now, after that ye have known God, or rather or known of God, how turn ye again to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5631]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now, after that ye have known God, or rather or known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64187]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  The great need today among the young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  The great need today among the young is the strengthening of belief in things spiritual, for in spite of the superhuman advances in science, invention, and culture, none of this is attributed to God's gift to man; in fact, the increase of knowledge and the cult of education have but given to youth a self-reliant independence where religion has no place, and beyond admitting that Christ was "the best man that ever lived," there are few who concede any other tribute to the Creator. And yet the saving principles of the world are rooted in Christ, implanted in him; the Truth by which men live is the Truth as taught and lived by Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free. (explaining his contractual obligations) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57653]]></link><description><![CDATA[They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free. (explaining his contractual obligations)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never despair, keep pushing on! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never despair, keep pushing on!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57942]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve They were all looking for a king To slay their foes, and lift them high; Thou cam'st, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve They were all looking for a king To slay their foes, and lift them high; Thou cam'st, a little baby thing That made a woman cry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jupiter and the MonkeyJupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jupiter and the MonkeyJupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be deemed the handsomest. The Monkey came with the rest and presented, with all a mother's tenderness, a flat-nosed, hairless, ill-featured young Monkey as a candidate for the promised reward. A general laugh saluted her on the presentation of her son. She resolutely said, I know not whether Jupiter will allot the prize to my son, but this I do know, that he is at least in the eyes of me his mother, the dearest, handsomest, and most beautiful of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too bad to want a thing and not be allowed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61093]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too bad to want a thing and not be allowed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast  And fills the white and rustling sails, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43991]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast  And fills the white and rustling sails,   And bends the gallant mast!    And bends the gallant mast, my boys,     While, like the eagle free,      Away the good ship flies, and leaves       Old England in the lee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43991</guid></item></channel></rss>