<?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[I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way;  But left me none the wiser,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way;  But left me none the wiser,   For all she had to say.    I walked a mile with Sorrow     And ne'er a word said she;      But, oh, the things I learned from her       When Sorrow walked with me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52750]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inch in missing is as bad as an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48975]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know and believe in yourself, and what others think won't disturb you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know and believe in yourself, and what others think won't disturb you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   The entrance into Jerusalem [on Palm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   The entrance into Jerusalem [on Palm Sunday] has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions -- even parading without a permit! Also, when Jesus "set his face to go to Jerusalem," what was involved was direct action, an open confrontation and public demonstration of the incompatibility of evil with the Kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A third Cato has dropped from the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50424]]></link><description><![CDATA[A third Cato has dropped from the skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A completely different type of audience. They really like traditional bluegrass music over there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A completely different type of audience. They really like traditional bluegrass music over there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do... Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    This is true Christian resignation to God, which requires no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    This is true Christian resignation to God, which requires no more to the support of it than such a plain assurance of the goodness of God as Abraham had of His veracity. And if you ask yourself what greater reason Abraham had to depend upon the Divine veracity than you have to depend upon the Divine goodness, you will find that none can be given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2686]]></link><description><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it feels good any time you hit a home run. But the guy is only 19 years old. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it feels good any time you hit a home run. But the guy is only 19 years old. He's going to give up his fair share of home runs, but he'll get his share of strikeouts, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(They are unknown) because they had no bard to sing their praises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50367]]></link><description><![CDATA[(They are unknown) because they had no bard to sing their praises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2739]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons pease, And utters it again when God doth please. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46602]]></link><description><![CDATA[This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons pease, And utters it again when God doth please.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is a corporate vulgarity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is a corporate vulgarity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is an ague, that forsakes And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes;  And they'll opine they feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is an ague, that forsakes And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes;  And they'll opine they feel the pain   And blows they felt, to-day, again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36293]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . .  Bright--and as black and burning as coal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14829]]></link><description><![CDATA[With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . .  Bright--and as black and burning as coal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sittings, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27502]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sittings, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8846]]></link><description><![CDATA[All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (communications) intercepts from NSA were the ultimate proof that an attack had taken place on August 4 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (communications) intercepts from NSA were the ultimate proof that an attack had taken place on August 4]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15533]]></link><description><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leap year Is never a good sheep year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56162]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leap year Is never a good sheep year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A knave’s religion is always the rottenest thing about him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23895]]></link><description><![CDATA[A knave’s religion is always the rottenest thing about him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great unwashed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great unwashed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall for lithography, we still need to shrink for these guys to get two microprocessors on a chip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall for lithography, we still need to shrink for these guys to get two microprocessors on a chip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2854]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on education:   The devout student is the best of all students. There are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on education:   The devout student is the best of all students. There are too many who are devout, but not students. They will not accept the discipline of study and of learning, and they even look with suspicion upon the further knowledge which study brings to men. There are equally too many who are students, but not devout. They are interested too much in intellectual knowledge, and too little in the life of prayer and in the life of service of their fellow men. A man would do well to aim at being not only a student, and not only devout, but at being a devout student.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be nice to get home but we still lost the game. We wanted to come out with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be nice to get home but we still lost the game. We wanted to come out with a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The assassination changed the way we thought, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36637]]></link><description><![CDATA[The assassination changed the way we thought,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26945]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25461]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2320]]></link><description><![CDATA[But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2320</guid></item></channel></rss>