<?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[Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14948]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to really beat them because they beat us last year when we were undefeated (7-0). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39388]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to really beat them because they beat us last year when we were undefeated (7-0).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be envied than pitied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14012]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be envied than pitied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no ordinary moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22355]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no ordinary moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is insufficient temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is insufficient temptation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour and profit lie not in one sacke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be creative. If people get an e-mail with a funny gimmick, they'll be more likely to pass ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34599]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be creative. If people get an e-mail with a funny gimmick, they'll be more likely to pass it on and get involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46621]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must be cruel only to be kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must be cruel only to be kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise in heart are called discerning,    and pleasant words promote instruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise in heart are called discerning,    and pleasant words promote instruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14806]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You got people going home, with people seeing they got nothing and spotting a house that's high and dry. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30727]]></link><description><![CDATA[You got people going home, with people seeing they got nothing and spotting a house that's high and dry. It's a sad situation. Illegal, nonetheless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47436]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should be religious, not superstitious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48982]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should be religious, not superstitious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40637]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56149]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager decided to close it because he didn't have any cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager decided to close it because he didn't have any cooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11407]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved--and not the reverse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth;  May breathing sweet her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth;  May breathing sweet her Spring perfumes,   November thundering from the North.    With hands upraised, as with one voice,     They join their notes in grand accord;      Hail to December! say they all,       It gave to Earth our Christ the Lord!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is one of the sinews of the Soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is one of the sinews of the Soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4302]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover,  Think 'tis the shade   By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover,  Think 'tis the shade   By Victory made    Whose wings right o'er us hover!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I played ball, I didn't play for fun... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57699]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I played ball, I didn't play for fun... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3059]]></link><description><![CDATA[To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year, Clear Channel Radio announced plans to launch Spanish-language formats in markets where there was a need for more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year, Clear Channel Radio announced plans to launch Spanish-language formats in markets where there was a need for more Hispanic-targeted programming. The success of KLOL/Mega epitomizes the very essence of what we hoped to accomplish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane,  Immovable for three days past,   Points to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane,  Immovable for three days past,   Points to the misty main.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why. [I wept when I was born and every day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49504]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why. [I wept when I was born and every day explains why.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13620]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always accept good fortune with grace and humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7769</guid></item></channel></rss>