<?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[They say that the best counsel is that of woman. [Sp., Dicen, que el primer consejo  Ha de ser ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/776]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that the best counsel is that of woman. [Sp., Dicen, que el primer consejo  Ha de ser de la muger.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1747]]></link><description><![CDATA[You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27765]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air,  Full of spirit's melancholy   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17740]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air,  Full of spirit's melancholy   And eternity's despair!    And they heart the words it said--     Pan is dead! great Pan is dead!      Pan, Pan is dead!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skills are cheap; chemistry is expensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skills are cheap; chemistry is expensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53700]]></link><description><![CDATA[For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20906]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caring is a reflex... You live, you help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caring is a reflex... You live, you help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf. [Lat., Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf. [Lat., Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia retroversus crescit tanquam coda vituli.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26527]]></link><description><![CDATA[I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors. Everybody a mathematician?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous. -Margot Fonteyn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store,  . . . .   Live today, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store,  . . . .   Live today, tomorrow is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is plain as a pike staff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is plain as a pike staff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does in England.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of that, Master Brook. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of that, Master Brook. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me tell you why I suck as a sellman.... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me tell you why I suck as a sellman....]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the ivorytowers of Harvardare the catacombsin which a hundredthousand mice are caged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath the ivorytowers of Harvardare the catacombsin which a hundredthousand mice are caged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should never as a city attempt to put profit over public safety. Public safety must be at the top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34544]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should never as a city attempt to put profit over public safety. Public safety must be at the top of the list of those services that should be the last to be cut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy often inflicts death. [Lat., Mortem misericors saepe pro vita dabit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy often inflicts death. [Lat., Mortem misericors saepe pro vita dabit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched--my eyeballs burn,  I scent no flowery gust;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23564]]></link><description><![CDATA[What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched--my eyeballs burn,  I scent no flowery gust;   But faint the flagging zephyr springs,    With dry Macadam on its wings,     And turns me "dust to dust."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there's life, there's hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there's life, there's hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  It is not experience of life but experience of the Cross that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  It is not experience of life but experience of the Cross that makes one a worthy hearer of confessions. The most experienced psychologist or observer of human nature knows infinitely less of the human heart than the simplest Christian who lives beneath the Cross of Jesus. The greatest psychological insight, ability, and experience cannot grasp this one thing: what sin is. Worldly wisdom knows what distress and weakness and failure are, but it does not know the godlessness of men. And so it also does not know that man is destroyed only by his sin and can be healed only by forgiveness. Only the Christian knows this. In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother, I can dare to be a sinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot have the success without the failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15751]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot have the success without the failures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18731]]></link><description><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55473]]></link><description><![CDATA[And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3415]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negotiations, in the view of the government, are the only constructive way to a solution of this question, ... In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negotiations, in the view of the government, are the only constructive way to a solution of this question, ... In this way, the international community can feel confident in Iran's statements that its nuclear program serves only peaceful intentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore  The tone of languid Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore  The tone of languid Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,  This is my own, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,  This is my own, my native land!   Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,    As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,     From wandering on a foreign strand!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till then, good-night! You wish the time were now? And I.  You do not blush to wish it so? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till then, good-night! You wish the time were now? And I.  You do not blush to wish it so?   You would have blush'd yourself to death    To own so much a year ago.     What! both these snowy hands? ah, then      I'll have to say, Good-night again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540   The attitude of Jesus to the Jewish law was singularly free and unembarrassed. He made full use of it as an impressive statement of high ethical ideals; even its ritual practices He treated with perfect tolerance where they did not conflict with fundamental moral obligations. From Pharisaic formalism He appealed to the relative simplicity of the venerable written Law. But again from the written Law itself He appealed to the basic rights and duties of humanity: the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath; the Law might permit the dissolution of marriage, but there was something more deeply rooted in the nature of things which forbade it; the [law of retaliation], the central principle of legal justice, must go overboard in the interest of the holy impulse to love your neighbor, not merely as yourself, but as God has loved you. Such freehanded dealing meant that the whole notion of morality as a code of rules, with sanctions of rewards and punishments, was abandoned. But the average Christian was slow to see this implication. For instance, Jesus had taken fasting out of the class of meritorious acts, and given it a place only as the fitting and spontaneous expression of certain spiritual states. This is what an early authoritative catechism of the Church made of His teaching: "Let not your fast be made with the hypocrites, for they fast on Monday and Thursday; ye therefore shall fast on Wednesday and Friday." It sounds ludicrous, but we may ask, Was it not on some very similar principle that the Church did actually carry through its reconstruction of "religious observance"? And a Church which so perverted Christ's treatment of the ritual law proved itself almost equally incapable of understanding His drastic revision of the moral law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45579]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45579</guid></item></channel></rss>