<?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[Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. [It., Spesso e da forte,  Piu che ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. [It., Spesso e da forte,  Piu che il morire, il vivere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. [Lat., Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57858]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. [Lat., Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendem rei publicae causae.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was always kind of the nice guy in the good cop-bad cop thing. But it's not like he tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30485]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was always kind of the nice guy in the good cop-bad cop thing. But it's not like he tells us to do something now and we're like, 'OK, whatever, J.J.' Everybody respects him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10068]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the little people pay taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the little people pay taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her way,   Laying foundations every day,    Though not for Public Buildings, yet     For Custard, Cake and Omelette.      Of if too old for such a use       They have their fling at some abuse,        As when to censure Plays Unfit         Upon the stage they make a Hit          Or at elections seal the Fate           Of an Obnoxious Candidate.            No wonder, Child, we prize the Hen,             Whose Egg is Mightier than the Pen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66357]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19382]]></link><description><![CDATA[[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43838]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63652]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's almost a death wish in a way. What (the Tories) should be doing is trying to attract the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's almost a death wish in a way. What (the Tories) should be doing is trying to attract the best and the brightest to Ottawa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is lame, but it comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is lame, but it comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can't get diseasesof Mad Chicken or Mad Pigby eating tomatoes oralmonds or figs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51979]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can't get diseasesof Mad Chicken or Mad Pigby eating tomatoes oralmonds or figs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if there be an hereafter, And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'd  And suffer'd to speak out, tells every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58236]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if there be an hereafter, And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'd  And suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,   Then must it be an awful thing to die;    More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  What we have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ -- can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father -- that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people revolt in a totalitarian society, they rise not against the wickedness of the regime but its weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47604]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people revolt in a totalitarian society, they rise not against the wickedness of the regime but its weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Jesus, priceless treasure, source of purest pleasure  Truest friend to me; Long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Jesus, priceless treasure, source of purest pleasure  Truest friend to me; Long my heart has panted, till it well-nigh fainted,  Thirsting after Thee. Thine I am, O spotless Lamb; I will suffer naught to hide Thee,  Ask for naught beside Thee. In Thine arm I rest me; foes who would molest me  Cannot reach me here. Though the earth be shaking, every heart be quaking,  God dispels our fear. Sin and hell in conflict fell With their heaviest storms assail us:  Jesus will not fail us. Hence, all thoughts of sadness! For the Lord of gladness,  Jesus, enters in: Those who love the Father, though the storms may gather,  Still have peace within; Yes, whate'er we here must bear, Still in Thee lies purest pleasure,  Jesus, priceless treasure!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59796]]></link><description><![CDATA[But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phone for the fish-knives, Norman As Cook is a little unnerved;  You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Phone for the fish-knives, Norman As Cook is a little unnerved;  You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes   And I must have things daintily served.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats need it; we don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats need it; we don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56469]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told us the game wasn't over. He told us (the Bulldogs) weren't going to quit. We got lackadaisical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30605]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told us the game wasn't over. He told us (the Bulldogs) weren't going to quit. We got lackadaisical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17492]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to believe that with the signing of this agreement today, Liberia will never be plunged into another spiral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to believe that with the signing of this agreement today, Liberia will never be plunged into another spiral of violence in the quest for political power, or under the false pretense of liberating the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26508]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25717]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24841]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He koude songes make and well endite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46852]]></link><description><![CDATA[He koude songes make and well endite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21817]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13632]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good enough never is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good enough never is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9314]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9314</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[We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43857]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be a massive clash in all senses of the word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32589]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be a massive clash in all senses of the word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. -Buddha.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17453]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17453</guid></item></channel></rss>