<?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[Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christianity should happen to be true -- that is to say, if its God is the real God of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7552]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christianity should happen to be true -- that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe -- then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything. Things can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is false, but nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is true. [All] things not only may have something to do with the Christian God, but must have something to do with Him if He lives and reigns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59068]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small service is true service while it lasts: Of humblest friends, bright Creature! scorn not one;  The Daisy, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small service is true service while it lasts: Of humblest friends, bright Creature! scorn not one;  The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts,   Protects the lingering dew drop from the Sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9047]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/810]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15428]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58181]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are back in business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33758]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are back in business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our true nationality is mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our true nationality is mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease not to learn until thou cease to live; Think that day lost wherein thou draw'st no letter,  To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease not to learn until thou cease to live; Think that day lost wherein thou draw'st no letter,  To make thyself learneder, wiser, better.   [Fr., Jusqu'au cercuil (mon fils) vueilles apprendre,    Et tien perdu le jour qui s'est passe,     Si tu n'y as quelque chose ammasse,      Pour plus scavant et plus sage te rendre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant theirwhole life in the hands of some other person. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant theirwhole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this methodof searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consistssolely in moving toward self-sufficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrestling is ballet with violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrestling is ballet with violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18937]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This casket threatens; men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages.  A golden mind stoops not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17141]]></link><description><![CDATA[This casket threatens; men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages.  A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross;   I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was like, bing, bing, bing. They threw some big punches, and we just didn't respond like we have all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33248]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was like, bing, bing, bing. They threw some big punches, and we just didn't respond like we have all year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54731]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the irrational season Where love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason There'd have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8317]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the irrational season Where love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason There'd have been no room for the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44089]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission; he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17034]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23489]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him. [The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49889]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him. [The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an escalation that we have been expecting, ... The government of Iraq is determined to confront the enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36811]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an escalation that we have been expecting, ... The government of Iraq is determined to confront the enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church says that the Earth is flat, but I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church says that the Earth is flat, but I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44169]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the physician of each misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the physician of each misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward threatens when he is safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward threatens when he is safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  It is God Himself, personally present and redeemingly active, who comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  It is God Himself, personally present and redeemingly active, who comes to meet men in this Man of Nazareth. Jesus is more than a religious genius, such as George Fox, and more than a holy man, such as the lovable Lana in Kipling's Kim. He himself knows that he is more. The Gospel story is a tree rooted in the familiar soil of time and sense; but its roots go down into the Abyss and its branches fill the Heavens; given to us in terms of a country in the Eastern Mediterranean no bigger than Wales, during the Roman Principate of Tiberius Caesar in the first century of our era, its range is universal; it is on the scale of eternity. God's presence and his very Self were made manifest in the words and works of this Man. In short, the Man Christ Jesus has the decisive place in man's ageless relationship with God. He is what God means by 'Man'. He is what man means by 'God'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24453]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To marry unequally is to suffer equally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36452]]></link><description><![CDATA[To marry unequally is to suffer equally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60199]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent. What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36899]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent. What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt to destroy the young challenger among the Tory modernizers' camp and to keep the Conservatives firmly on the right of British politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36899</guid></item></channel></rss>