<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43099]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. . . . It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their "betters" were derelict.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung.  Where grew the arts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung.  Where grew the arts of war and peace,--   Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!    Eternal summer gilds them yet,     But all, except their sun, is set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble rides behind and gallops with him. [Fr., Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble rides behind and gallops with him. [Fr., Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives us the very quintessence of perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46059]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives us the very quintessence of perception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[rnI'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65132]]></link><description><![CDATA[rnI'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is primarily because it is illegal for a lot of the student population. A lot of students are also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31724]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is primarily because it is illegal for a lot of the student population. A lot of students are also practicing high-risk drinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't pull a few out but they were all close games and during each one of those losses we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39632]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't pull a few out but they were all close games and during each one of those losses we felt that we could have won the game. Knowing that is a great sign because we can make some small adjustments and hopefully change it for the next game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16671]]></link><description><![CDATA[England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.   - Mrs. Lydia Maria Child,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is all very frustrating, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29426]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is all very frustrating,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the spot where I am mortal. [Ger., Hier ist die Stelle wo ich sterblich bin.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43175]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the spot where I am mortal. [Ger., Hier ist die Stelle wo ich sterblich bin.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learned men and great scholars have devoted great effort and prolonged study to the Holy Scriptures... employing the gifts which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned men and great scholars have devoted great effort and prolonged study to the Holy Scriptures... employing the gifts which God gives to every person who has the use of reason. This knowledge is good ... but it does not bring with it any spiritual experience of God, for these graces are granted only to those who have a great love for Him. This fountain of love issues from our Lord alone, and no stranger may approach it. But knowledge of this kind is common to good and bad alike, since it can be acquired without love, ... and men of a worldly life are sometimes more knowledgeable than many true Christians although they do not possess this love. St. Paul describes this kind of knowledge: "If I had full knowledge of all things and knew all secrets, but had no love, I should be nothing." ... Some people who possess this knowledge become proud and misuse it in order to increase their personal reputation, worldly rank, honours and riches, when they should use it humbly to the praise of God and for the benefit of their fellow Christians in true charity... St. Paul says of this kind of knowledge: "Knowledge by itself stirs the heart with pride, but united to love it turns to edification." By itself this knowledge is like water, tasteless and cold. But if those who have it will offer it humbly to our Lord and ask for His grace, He will turn the water into wine with His blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because we have a big guest, do we stop going to prayers? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because we have a big guest, do we stop going to prayers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marathon can humble you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marathon can humble you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17603]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good for a man not to touch a woman ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55284]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good for a man not to touch a woman]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devill is not alwaies at one doore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49831]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28497]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it would be months before we could go back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32077]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it would be months before we could go back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15888]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Rhine, on the Rhine, there grow our vines. [Ger., Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen uns're Reben.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54190]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the Rhine, on the Rhine, there grow our vines. [Ger., Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen uns're Reben.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll look forward to what they have to tell them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40392]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll look forward to what they have to tell them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours -- to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world. Love all living things whose humble task is not opposed in any way to yours, to ours: men with simple hearts, honest, without vanity and malice, and all the animals, because they are beautiful, without exception and without exception indifferent to whatever "idea" there may be. Love them, and you will see the eternal in the glance of their eyes of jet, amber, or emerald. Love also the trees, the plants, the water that runs though the meadow and on to the sea without knowing where it goes; love the mountain, the desert, the forest, the immense sky, full of light or full of clouds; because all these exceed man and reveal the eternal to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5410]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66204]]></link><description><![CDATA[True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your heart's desires be with you! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your heart's desires be with you! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 7. the ministry of authority   Jesus made authority in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 7. the ministry of authority   Jesus made authority in the fellowship dependent upon brotherly service (Mark 10:43). Genuine spiritual authority is to be found only where the ministry of hearing, helping, bearing, and proclaiming is carried out. Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether spiritual nature, is worldly and has no place in the Christian community; indeed, it poisons the Christian community...   Genuine authority realizes that it can exist only in the service of Him who alone has authority... The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren...   Pastoral authority can be attained only by the servant of Jesus who seeks no power of his own, who himself is a brother among brothers to the authority of the Word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44446]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed of any late-breaking...humor we can find. Of course, our show is obviously at a disadvantage compared to the many news sources that we're competing with… at a disadvantage in several respects. For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility we are, well, oddly enough, actually about even. We're about even.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18004]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain does anyone pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7336]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain does anyone pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an appetite nor restrain lust nor subdue a passion nor cross his covetousness and ambition for the sake of it, and in hope of that eternal life which God that cannot lie hath promised. He that refuses to do the less is not like to do the greater. It is very improbable that a man will die for his religion, when he cannot be persuaded to live according to it. He that cannot take up a resolution to live a saint, hath a demonstration within himself that he is never like to die a martyr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46078]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Albert Einstein -Irish proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27825]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Albert Einstein -Irish proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Barnabas the Apostle Let songs of praises fill the sky!  Christ, our ascended Lord, Sends down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Barnabas the Apostle Let songs of praises fill the sky!  Christ, our ascended Lord, Sends down his Spirit from on high,  According to his word. The Spirit by his heavenly breath,  New life creates within: He quickens sinners from the death  Of trespasses and sin. The things of Christ the Spirit takes,  And shows them unto men; The fallen soul his temple makes,  God's image stamps again Come, Holy Spirit, from above,  With thy celestial fire: Come, and with flames of zeal and love  Our hearts and tongues inspire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweeter sound of woman's praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48015]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweeter sound of woman's praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I send thee pansies while the year is young, Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night;  Flowers of remembrance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I send thee pansies while the year is young, Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night;  Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sung   By all the chiefest of the Sons of Light;    And if in recollection lives regret     For wasted days and dreams that were not true,      I tell thee that the "pansy freak'd with jet"       Is still the heart's ease that the poets knew        Take all the sweetness of a gift unsought,         And for the pansies send me back a thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I paint with shapes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3359]]></link><description><![CDATA[I paint with shapes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3359</guid></item></channel></rss>