<?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[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the very essence of despotism that it can never afford to fail. This is what distinguishes it most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47443]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the very essence of despotism that it can never afford to fail. This is what distinguishes it most vitally from democracy. In a despotism there is no organized opposition which can take over the power when the Administration in office has failed. All the eggs are in one basket. Everything is staked on one coterie of men. When the going is good, they move more quickly and efficiently than democracies, where the opposition has to be persuaded and conciliated. But when they lose, there are no reserves. There are no substitutes on the bench ready to go out on the field and carry the ball. That is why democracies with the habit of party government have outlived all other forms of government in the modern world. They have, as it were, at least two governments always at hand, and when one fails they have the other. They have diversified the risks of mortality, corruption, and stupidity which pervade all human affairs. They have remembered that the most beautifully impressive machine cannot run for very long unless there is available a complete supply of spare parts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good;  Kind hearts are more than coronets, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good;  Kind hearts are more than coronets,   And simple faith than Norman blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.  The work she plyed, but, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.  The work she plyed, but, studious of delay,   Each following night reversed the toils of day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46714]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If it be all for naught, for nothingness At last, why does God make the world so fair? Why spill this golden splendor out across The western hills, and light the silver lamp Of eve? Why give me eyes to see, and soul To love so strong and deep? Then, with a pang This brightness stabs me through, and wakes within Rebellious voice to cry against all death? Why set this hunger for eternity To gnaw my heartstrings through, if death ends all? If death ends all, then evil must be good, Wrong must be right, and beauty ugliness.  God is a Judas who betrays His Son, And with a kiss, damns all the world to hell, -- If Christ rose not again.   ... Unknown soldier, killed in World War I  August 9, 2002 Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 Concluding a short series of verse on Christ: With this ambiguous earth his dealings have been told us. These abide:    The signal to a maid, the human birth,    The lesson, and the young Man crucified. But not a star of all the innumerable host of stars has heard    How he administered this terrestrial ball.    Our race has kept their Lord's entrusted Word. Of his earth-visiting feet none knows the secret, cherished, perilous,    The terrible, shamefast, frightened, whispered, sweet,    Heart-shattering secret of his way with us. No planet knows that this, our wayside planet, carrying land and wave,    Love and life multiplied, and pain and bliss,    Bears, as its chief treasure, one forsaken grave. Nor, in our little day, may his devices with the heavens be guessed,    His pilgrimage to thread the Milky Way    Or his bestowal there be manifest. But in the eternities, doubtless we shall compare    Together, hear a million alien Gospels, in what guise    He trod the Pleiades, the Lyre, and the Bear. O, be prepared, my soul! To read the inconceivable, to scan    The million forms of God those stars unroll    When, in our turn, we show to them a Man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nail in the wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48529]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nail in the wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a madhouse, ... if you wait until voting day, then you've got the long lines and you get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36414]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a madhouse, ... if you wait until voting day, then you've got the long lines and you get tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never imagined I'd win this much money in one year. All this hasn't soaked in yet. I hope to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42173]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never imagined I'd win this much money in one year. All this hasn't soaked in yet. I hope to do as good as this next year. I'm going to go out, try my hardest and keep that same mind frame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun  From the day!   Gone, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun  From the day!   Gone, and a cloud in my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that supplies of crude oil and natural gas are more than adequate. The gasoline supply looked pretty tight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39170]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that supplies of crude oil and natural gas are more than adequate. The gasoline supply looked pretty tight a few weeks ago but the market responded and that's no longer the case. We are also getting closer to the end of winter and it's clear gas and heating-oil stocks will be sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode  Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height,   Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree  Of Prohibition, root ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16635]]></link><description><![CDATA[So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree  Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11700]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of men executed and buried in mass graves, hundreds of men buried alive, men and women mutilated and slaughtered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of men executed and buried in mass graves, hundreds of men buried alive, men and women mutilated and slaughtered, children killed before their mothers' eyes, a grandfather forced to eat the liver of his own grandson. These are truly scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54746]]></link><description><![CDATA[To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20400]]></link><description><![CDATA[For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is founded on compromise and barter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17987]]></link><description><![CDATA[All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is founded on compromise and barter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas blow for blow, disputing inch by inch, For one would not retreat, nor t'other flinch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3042]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas blow for blow, disputing inch by inch, For one would not retreat, nor t'other flinch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One attempt to reconcile the Gnostic doctrine [of the unreality of evilness] of matter with the apostolic teaching about Christ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6715]]></link><description><![CDATA[One attempt to reconcile the Gnostic doctrine [of the unreality of evilness] of matter with the apostolic teaching about Christ was the theory that the body which our Lord took at His coming into the world was not a real body but a phantom one. He only seemed to inhabit a material body, and from the Greek word dokein ["to seem"], people who held this theory were known as Docetists. But if Christ's incarnation was unreal, His death and resurrection were also unreal; and the whole gospel message was thus evacuated of its truth and power: one unhappy legacy of this short-lived phase of Christian heresy remains to bedevil Christian witness to Muslims up to the present day. For when the Koran says of Jesus that "they did not kill Him, nor did they crucify Him, but they thought they did", we may infer that Muhammad was indebted for this idea to a Christian source tainted with Docetism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's been a lot of interest in the subject, ... It certainly is an issue right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31555]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's been a lot of interest in the subject, ... It certainly is an issue right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48773]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man of wisdom is the man of years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man of wisdom is the man of years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set, Advantage by the friendly Distance get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set, Advantage by the friendly Distance get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few love to hear the sins they love to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few love to hear the sins they love to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65543]]></link><description><![CDATA[In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her voice changed like a bird's: There grew more of the music, and less of the words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her voice changed like a bird's: There grew more of the music, and less of the words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62392</guid></item><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[When you're getting matured the more responsibility you have ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33433]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're getting matured the more responsibility you have]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15700]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15700</guid></item></channel></rss>