<?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[I've been doing silly voices since I was a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shock. Disbelief. This is a loss to the entire Jewish community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shock. Disbelief. This is a loss to the entire Jewish community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born out of concern for all beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born out of concern for all beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is angry at a feast is rude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49362]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is angry at a feast is rude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's sloppy and it's chaotic, but the degree to which it improves precision in the retrieval process can be quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's sloppy and it's chaotic, but the degree to which it improves precision in the retrieval process can be quite significant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And with them words of so sweet breath composed As made the things more rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51259]]></link><description><![CDATA[And with them words of so sweet breath composed As made the things more rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19084]]></link><description><![CDATA[In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One flower makes no garland. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49689]]></link><description><![CDATA[One flower makes no garland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wicked book cannot repent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4610]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wicked book cannot repent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11974]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eliot has never shied away from an opportunity to take on his opponents. We have requests from news organizations, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eliot has never shied away from an opportunity to take on his opponents. We have requests from news organizations, and Eliot looks forward to debating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lengthening shadows wait The first pale stars of twilight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lengthening shadows wait The first pale stars of twilight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13406]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47126]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep yourfoot on first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep yourfoot on first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54633]]></link><description><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45366]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  As long as I see any thing to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was in the top five in our golf team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30368]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was in the top five in our golf team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57866]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66818]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wonder why we're electing Democrats and Republicans who seem to be more extreme than the average Democrat or Republican, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wonder why we're electing Democrats and Republicans who seem to be more extreme than the average Democrat or Republican, and when they get to the statehouse, they don't seem to talk to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words that weep, and tears that speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words that weep, and tears that speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2188]]></link><description><![CDATA[I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't do this now people will not be able to recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29099]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't do this now people will not be able to recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' case at once poses us a problem. If the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? Men are fools, perhaps; but hardly so foolish as that. The direct inference from black to white, from evil flower to virtuous root, from senseless work to a workman infinitely wise, staggers belief. The spectacle of the universe as revealed by experience can never have been the ground of religion: it must have always been something in spite of which religion, acquired from a different source, was held.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we learn with pleasure we never forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26963]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we learn with pleasure we never forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/742]]></link><description><![CDATA[As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10252]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, and who lives our life: and do the greatest things as though they were little and easy, because of His omnipotence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Layer by layer art strips life bare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Layer by layer art strips life bare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hizbullah is not a militia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hizbullah is not a militia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's history being made. More than that, I don't think you can send 140,000 soldiers out there, young guys from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's history being made. More than that, I don't think you can send 140,000 soldiers out there, young guys from Kansas and Alabama and all over the place, and not take some of the same risks that you're asking them to take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37213</guid></item></channel></rss>