<?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[The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1736]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66059]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,  And spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,  And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed   The lofty vault, to gather and roll back    The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood,     Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down      And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks       And supplication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25887]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word to the wise is infuriating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word to the wise is infuriating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13190]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52260]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the marketplace and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54594]]></link><description><![CDATA[See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48575]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27011]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our needs should come second.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn March 16, 2000 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can act. And you may well say "act". For what I call "myself" (for all practical, everyday purposes) is also a dramatic construction; memories, glimpses in the shavinglass, and snatches of the very fallible activity called "introspection", are the principal ingredients. Normally I call this construction "me"' and the stage set "the real world". Now the moment of prayer is for me -- or involves for me as its condition -- the awareness, the reawakened awareness, that this "real world" and "real self" are very far from being rock-bottom realities. I cannot, in the flesh, leave the stage, either to go behind the scenes or to take my seat in the pit; but I can remember that these regions exist. And I also remember that my apparent self -- this clown or hero or super -- under his grease-paint is a real person with an off-stage life. The dramatic person could not tread the stage unless he concealed a real person: unless the real and unknown I existed, I would not even make mistakes about the imagined me. And in prayer this real I struggles to speak, for once, from his real being, and to address, for once, not the other actors, but -- what shall I call Him? The Author, for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the Audience, for He watches, and will judge, the performance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the abilityand determination to overcome bad luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the abilityand determination to overcome bad luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of my role as a dad is to look at what kind of person he is. I have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of my role as a dad is to look at what kind of person he is. I have been remarkably pleased at how humble he is at this whole thing. I don't sense any kind of an ego or arrogance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The team played football today the way I like to see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The team played football today the way I like to see it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   None use instituted forms or ways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   None use instituted forms or ways of worship profitably, but such as find communion with God in them, or are seriously humbled because they do not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship", for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sacred Dove a quill did lend From her high-soaring wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sacred Dove a quill did lend From her high-soaring wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24516]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed. [Lat., Nihil est autem tam voluere, quam maledictum; nihil facilius emittitur; nihil citius excipitur, latius dissipatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he kind of looks up and says, 'Turn here.' Then, 'Turn here.' He had us make about five turns. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32757]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he kind of looks up and says, 'Turn here.' Then, 'Turn here.' He had us make about five turns. Now, by this time, I thought Ron was just full of B.S., that he couldn't possibly know where we were going. We were on little, two-lane, unmarked roads. But then, on the next turn, we pull right up in front of Florida State's stadium. It was incredible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4272]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos results when the world changes faster than people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos results when the world changes faster than people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women do most delight in revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women do most delight in revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It goes without saying that it's a big game, we knew that even before the Chelsea game, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39342]]></link><description><![CDATA[It goes without saying that it's a big game, we knew that even before the Chelsea game,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None so blind as those that will not see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4337]]></link><description><![CDATA[None so blind as those that will not see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass Carrying the Image AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous woodenImage, to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass Carrying the Image AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous woodenImage, to be placed in one of its Temples. As he passed along,the crowd made lowly prostration before the Image. The Ass,thinking that they bowed their heads in token of respect forhimself, bristled up with pride, gave himself airs, and refusedto move another step. The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid hiswhip lustily about his shoulders and said, O you perversedull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to anAss. They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17039]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like summer seas that lave with silent tides a lonely shore, like whispering winds that stir the tops of forest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like summer seas that lave with silent tides a lonely shore, like whispering winds that stir the tops of forest trees, like a still, small voice that calls us in the watches of the night, like a child's hand that feels about a fast-closed door;  gentle, unnoticed, and oft in vain:  so is Thy coming unto us, O God. Like ships storm-driven into port, like starving souls that seek the bread they once despised, like wanderers begging refuge from the whelming night, like prodigals that seek the father's home when all is spent;  yet welcomed at the open door, arms outstretched and kisses for our shame;  so is our coming unto Thee, 0 God. Like flowers uplifted to the sun, like trees that bend before the storm, like sleeping seas that mirror cloudless skies, like a harp to the hand, like an echo to a cry, like a song to the heart;  for all our stubbornness, our failure, and our sin:  so would we have been to Thee, O God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right--that will do for the marines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right--that will do for the marines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just really excited about it, and I think it needs to be started in the early grades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just really excited about it, and I think it needs to be started in the early grades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41206]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41206</guid></item></channel></rss>