<?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[A song of hate is a song of Hell; Some there be who sing it well.  Let them sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57213]]></link><description><![CDATA[A song of hate is a song of Hell; Some there be who sing it well.  Let them sing it loud and long,   We lift our hearts in a loftier song:    We life our hearts to Heaven above,     Singing the glory of her we love,      England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven, no. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven, no. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17261]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity never made a good bargain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity never made a good bargain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59117]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And taste The melancholy joys of evils pass'd,  For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58201]]></link><description><![CDATA[And taste The melancholy joys of evils pass'd,  For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63982]]></link><description><![CDATA[True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If she's playing like she was today, she can be a one man team. When you give any team three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37784]]></link><description><![CDATA[If she's playing like she was today, she can be a one man team. When you give any team three or four chances after shots like we were giving them, they are going to hit those shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud   Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud:    Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears;     And instant death on every wave appears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24283]]></link><description><![CDATA[For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated into the mysteries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make war that we may live in peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61128]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make war that we may live in peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime  If once rung on the counter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10652]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime  If once rung on the counter of this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63848]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will touch My mouth unto the leaves, caressingly;  And so wilt thou. Thus, from these lips of mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47829]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will touch My mouth unto the leaves, caressingly;  And so wilt thou. Thus, from these lips of mine   My message will go kissingly to thine,    With more than Fancy's load of luxury,     And prove a true love-letter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  To think of the Communists as the executors of God's judgment should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  To think of the Communists as the executors of God's judgment should not strike us as strange if we have read our Bibles. The same study should free us from the assumption that God will always be on our side whatever we do, will always protect His Church from temporal evil; or that He is only concerned with the faithful believers. It was precisely His concern for the wicked Ninevites that so distressed the prophet Jonah.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power ought to serve as a check to power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power ought to serve as a check to power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end: and much study is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4535]]></link><description><![CDATA[And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end: and much study is a weariness of the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This merger will mean a real choice and lower prices in local phone service, faster Internet access and better cable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42517]]></link><description><![CDATA[This merger will mean a real choice and lower prices in local phone service, faster Internet access and better cable TV,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear with evil, and expect good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bear with evil, and expect good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all played together coming up. We all know each other, and it's a real good clubhouse. I'd like to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all played together coming up. We all know each other, and it's a real good clubhouse. I'd like to think that will translate to the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad to be out here. We signed for what, 90 minutes. I'd stay as long as needed to help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34636]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad to be out here. We signed for what, 90 minutes. I'd stay as long as needed to help out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the triumph over chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the triumph over chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I cast loose my buff coat, each halter let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I cast loose my buff coat, each halter let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all,  Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear,   Called my Roland his pet name, my horse without peer;    Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise bad or good,     'Til at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. [Lat., Utque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12493]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. [Lat., Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est morbus qui a capite diffunditur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664  Continuing a short series on prayer:   All outward power that we exercise in the things about us is but a shadow in comparison of that inward power that resides in our will, imagination, and desires; these communicate with eternity and kindle a life which always reaches either Heaven or hell... Here lies the ground of the great efficacy of prayer, which when it is the prayer of the heart, the prayer of faith, has a kindling and creating power, and forms and transforms the soul into everything that the desire reaches after: it has the key to the Kingdom of Heaven and unlocks all its treasures; it opens, extends and moves that in us which has its being and motion in and with the divine nature. and so it brings us into real union and Communion with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis merry in hall Where beards wag all.   - Thomas Tusser, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27432]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis merry in hall Where beards wag all.   - Thomas Tusser,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything popular is wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything popular is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately, you have to learn how to live within the confines of a courtroom and not a boardroom. Lay did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately, you have to learn how to live within the confines of a courtroom and not a boardroom. Lay did not master the courtroom as other chief executives have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by committee. If it was God's committeefor an animal adapted to communities without water..it was a divine consensus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully we got it soon enough to get it stopped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully we got it soon enough to get it stopped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is Love without his wings! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is Love without his wings!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42039]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other two people have not been able to be located yet. There have been no signs of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other two people have not been able to be located yet. There have been no signs of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forceÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âwe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41121]]></link><description><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forceÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âwe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval notion that there is an aristocracy and a people, and the people want a piece of what the aristocracy hadÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âa life subsidized enough to have a minimum of work and a maximum of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41121</guid></item></channel></rss>