<?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[Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11639]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a golfer -- not an athlete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57539]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a golfer -- not an athlete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52319]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than others, but as lower than the lowest of mankind. We hate then the whole world, and we would pour our wrath upon the whole of creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy is equal to desire and purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy is equal to desire and purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[everyone out there stay there, everyone in the locker room, go to the ring, we're having a team meeting! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39815]]></link><description><![CDATA[everyone out there stay there, everyone in the locker room, go to the ring, we're having a team meeting!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5525]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41088]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to make it clear that I am continuing as manager of Leicester City, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to make it clear that I am continuing as manager of Leicester City,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63766]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54262]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slack, therefore, I am... doing nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56539]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slack, therefore, I am... doing nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thursday come, and the week's gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thursday come, and the week's gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So cowards fight when they can fly no further; So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons;  So desperate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10500]]></link><description><![CDATA[So cowards fight when they can fly no further; So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons;  So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives,   Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Dr. [John A. T.] Robinson is right in saying that "God is teaching us that we must live as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6866]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Dr. [John A. T.] Robinson is right in saying that "God is teaching us that we must live as men who can get on very well without him", then the Church has no need to say anything whatever to secularized man for that is precisely what secularized man already believes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation ... A stereotyped but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation ... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, without anxiety; repentest, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, without anxiety; repentest, yet grievest not; art angry, yet serene; changest Thy works, Thy purpose unchanged; receivest again what Thou findest, yet didst never lose; never in need, yet rejoicing in gains; never covetous, yet exacting usury. Thou receivest over and above, that Thou mayest owe; and who hath aught that is not Thine? Thou payest debts, owing nothing; remittest debts, losing nothing. And that have I now said, my God, my life, my holy joy? or what saith any man when he speaks of Thee? Yet woe to him that speaketh not, since mute are even the most eloquent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach us to give and not to count the cost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach us to give and not to count the cost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35319]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're now focusing on our core audience, although friends of Latin music will find it wherever they are, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35224]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're now focusing on our core audience, although friends of Latin music will find it wherever they are,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62592]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18416]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17826]]></link><description><![CDATA[People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn't mean I know you'll never go, Only that I wish you didn't have to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity sees the need, not the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity sees the need, not the cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If it be all for naught, for nothingness At last, why does God make the world so fair? Why spill this golden splendor out across The western hills, and light the silver lamp Of eve? Why give me eyes to see, and soul To love so strong and deep? Then, with a pang This brightness stabs me through, and wakes within Rebellious voice to cry against all death? Why set this hunger for eternity To gnaw my heartstrings through, if death ends all? If death ends all, then evil must be good, Wrong must be right, and beauty ugliness.  God is a Judas who betrays His Son, And with a kiss, damns all the world to hell, -- If Christ rose not again.   ... Unknown soldier, killed in World War I  August 9, 2002 Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 Concluding a short series of verse on Christ: With this ambiguous earth his dealings have been told us. These abide:    The signal to a maid, the human birth,    The lesson, and the young Man crucified. But not a star of all the innumerable host of stars has heard    How he administered this terrestrial ball.    Our race has kept their Lord's entrusted Word. Of his earth-visiting feet none knows the secret, cherished, perilous,    The terrible, shamefast, frightened, whispered, sweet,    Heart-shattering secret of his way with us. No planet knows that this, our wayside planet, carrying land and wave,    Love and life multiplied, and pain and bliss,    Bears, as its chief treasure, one forsaken grave. Nor, in our little day, may his devices with the heavens be guessed,    His pilgrimage to thread the Milky Way    Or his bestowal there be manifest. But in the eternities, doubtless we shall compare    Together, hear a million alien Gospels, in what guise    He trod the Pleiades, the Lyre, and the Bear. O, be prepared, my soul! To read the inconceivable, to scan    The million forms of God those stars unroll    When, in our turn, we show to them a Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He understands that the process is delicate one with equal chances of falling flat and moving forward. So he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29812]]></link><description><![CDATA[He understands that the process is delicate one with equal chances of falling flat and moving forward. So he is keeping his options open to wash his hands off, if the need arises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26534]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bring to my life a certain amount of mess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53498]]></link><description><![CDATA[True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is suffering. One side always loves more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is suffering. One side always loves more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61583]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6026]]></link><description><![CDATA[They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45357]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition to the costs of the software itself, organizations will encounter other up-front costs, including those resulting from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29662]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition to the costs of the software itself, organizations will encounter other up-front costs, including those resulting from the need for new hardware, administrator and end-user training, configuration and deployment of the new operating system, compatibility-testing, and possible re-engineering of application software,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29662</guid></item></channel></rss>