<?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[God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59861]]></link><description><![CDATA[God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought not to forget that the whole Church, quite as much as any part of it, exists for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7087]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought not to forget that the whole Church, quite as much as any part of it, exists for the sole reason of finally becoming superfluous. Of heaven St. John the Divine said, "I saw no temple therein.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will not be a new target set for eradication of polio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30809]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will not be a new target set for eradication of polio.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19052]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. •Deepak Chopra   Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. •Ovid   Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   A heart in love with beauty never grows old. •Turkish Proverb   To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful places, they were. They had porches in front, high ceilings in the apartments. You could watch the West Albany ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful places, they were. They had porches in front, high ceilings in the apartments. You could watch the West Albany fireworks. But that was long before your time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28034]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain. [Lat., Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain. [Lat., Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11446]]></link><description><![CDATA[For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/593]]></link><description><![CDATA[To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods and aching arms. To my ex-wife, bass are the bewilderment of addiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men become old, but they never become good ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men become old, but they never become good]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know thy opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know thy opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. Whenever the secular arm is called in to sustain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47470]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. Whenever the secular arm is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["meat produced under current factory farming conditions(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/198]]></link><description><![CDATA["meat produced under current factory farming conditions(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, halachically unacceptable (i.e. unacceptable in terms ofJewish law.)"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have this agreement, everybody is going to gain, including Poland. And if we don't have this agreement, everybody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41587]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have this agreement, everybody is going to gain, including Poland. And if we don't have this agreement, everybody will lose including Poland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been hitting a lot better than last year, but we had four errors (Tuesday) and that is what I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been hitting a lot better than last year, but we had four errors (Tuesday) and that is what I can't stand. We'll make great defensive plays, then make a mistake. We just have to be consistent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63458]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fit to give weight to smoke. [Lat., Dare pondus idonea fumo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fit to give weight to smoke. [Lat., Dare pondus idonea fumo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44802]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11374]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter andgive up. They happen to break you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter andgive up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be allthat you were intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to be instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the Living Water which Jesus Christ will give us and which alone can satisfy our souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,  Deep-founded habitation. Shake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61705]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,  Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs,   Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very impressive of Van Heeswijk. He bridged back to the peloton all by himself after his puncture and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40096]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very impressive of Van Heeswijk. He bridged back to the peloton all by himself after his puncture and still had strength left over for the sprint, even though the pace was high towards the end of the stage. Christian Vande Velde crashed during the final descent, but he wasn't seriously hurt and managed to finish in the main peloton, while Linus Gerdemann lost some time because he's suffering from a back ache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44339]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39532]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the internet and the subsequent flowering of genealogical research. This obsession with roots will be felt especially keenly by foundlings, who often have no way of exploring their family histories.] I notice that genealogical sites now have warnings on them saying people should be ready for little surprises, ... They're not all going to find themselves descended from King Henry VIII or Richard Cur de Lion or Wellington. This is rather strange because it was pretty taken for granted a few generations ago that families had all kinds of little moments where things had gone not according to the book. It was just one of those things. You tried to accommodate it. There was no social welfare. You just had to sort it out within villages, the families, the parish. Children went to the workhouse, but people knew about it. Nowadays, there's a kind of surprise that these cases were so commonplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just a ball hog. He probably could be our best player on offense, but we need him on defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33451]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just a ball hog. He probably could be our best player on offense, but we need him on defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have an inflatable dome. It?s almost like a multimedia theater experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33525]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have an inflatable dome. It?s almost like a multimedia theater experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing inevitable about the tensions between our two countries or on the Korean peninsula or in the region, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41269]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing inevitable about the tensions between our two countries or on the Korean peninsula or in the region,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61201]]></link><description><![CDATA[War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(They are unknown) because they had no bard to sing their praises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50367]]></link><description><![CDATA[(They are unknown) because they had no bard to sing their praises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all progress, adn the essay into a better world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes;  Their white is stays for ever,   Their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3852]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes;  Their white is stays for ever,   Their red it never dies;    But Phyllida, my Phillida!     Her colour comes and goes;      It trembles to a lily,--       It wavers to a rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3852</guid></item></channel></rss>