<?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[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[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure upsurges of fresh spiritual vitality, breaking through and revolting against the hardened structure of the older body, and claiming, in the name of the Spirit, liberty from outward forms and institutions. And we have seen how rapidly they develop their own forms, their own structures of thought, of language, and of organisation. It would surely be a very unbiblical view of human nature and history to think -- as we so often, in our pagan way, do -- that this is just an example of the tendency of all things to slide down from a golden age to an age of iron, to identify the spiritual with the disembodied, and to regard visible structure as equivalent to sin. We must rather recognise here a testimony to the fact that Christianity is, in its very heart and essence, not a disembodied spirituality, but life in a visible fellowship, a life which makes such total claim upon us, and so engages our total powers, that nothing less than the closest and most binding association of men with one another can serve its purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. - Essays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fake news executives are nicer than real news executives, though real news executives are funnier than fake news executives. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fake news executives are nicer than real news executives, though real news executives are funnier than fake news executives. They don’t know they’re being funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caesarism is democracy without liberty. [Fr., Le Cesarisme, c'est la democratie sans la liberte.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caesarism is democracy without liberty. [Fr., Le Cesarisme, c'est la democratie sans la liberte.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the meantime, the data on the US economy (especially employment and industrial production) will look very weak in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40736]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the meantime, the data on the US economy (especially employment and industrial production) will look very weak in the next few months,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike. - "Introduction to Naked Masks by Luigi Pirandello", 1952.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way -- by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. [Lat., Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. [Lat., Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23389]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's unbelievable. We're just in shock, as much shock as we were in with Gary Walberg. No one expected this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30280]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's unbelievable. We're just in shock, as much shock as we were in with Gary Walberg. No one expected this to happen. It's just nine months after Gary's passing. (Loudon) had big plans for the department, shared his vision with us. It's been a while since we had a full complement of officers. It's unfortunate. He was a real nice guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56952]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46369]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ashley decided that before Madeleine even got there that she is the best person ever, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ashley decided that before Madeleine even got there that she is the best person ever,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand theuniverse without God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand theuniverse without God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it's one dollar from a kid, or five, 10 or 20 dollars from an adult, it all adds up, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it's one dollar from a kid, or five, 10 or 20 dollars from an adult, it all adds up,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three signs of great men are -- generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17258]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three signs of great men are -- generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61240]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must worship its light though it is not our own,   For liberty burst in its ray.    Shall the name of a Washington ever be heard     By a freeman, and thrill not his breast?      Is there one out of bondage that hails not the word,       As a Bethlehem Star of the West?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19590]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, believe me, Appear the Immortals,  Never alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, believe me, Appear the Immortals,  Never alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle of our age, Sir Philip Sidney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle of our age, Sir Philip Sidney.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1691]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42796]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not if you burst yourself will you equal him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not if you burst yourself will you equal him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46312]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sin except stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56422]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sin except stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63743]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17487]]></link><description><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Continuing a series on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Continuing a series on the church:  The apostle asked the converts of Apollos one question: "Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" and got a plain answer. His modern successors are more inclined to ask either "Did you believe exactly what we teach?" or "Were the hands that were laid on you our hands?", and -- if the answer is satisfactory -- to assure the converts that they have received the Holy Spirit even if they don't know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day one was a bit of a disaster and to come back and win a gold after that was just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day one was a bit of a disaster and to come back and win a gold after that was just unbelievable. I'm just so happy I was able to turn it around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14914]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. [Lat., I demens! et saevas curre per Alpes,  Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50942]]></link><description><![CDATA[One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have five times as many customers as we did three years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have five times as many customers as we did three years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18762]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reason to repeat bad history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53120]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reason to repeat bad history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're always a rough and tumble, blue-collar team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31953]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're always a rough and tumble, blue-collar team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1773]]></link><description><![CDATA[A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1773</guid></item></channel></rss>