<?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[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   We must remember that our experience of union with God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   We must remember that our experience of union with God, our feeling of His presence, is altogether accidental and secondary. It is only a side effect of His actual presence in our souls, and gives no sure indication of that presence in any case. For God Himself is above all apprehensions and ideas and sensations, however spiritual, that can ever be experienced by the spirit of man in this life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29552]]></link><description><![CDATA[If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our pompe the earth covers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49106]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our pompe the earth covers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62268]]></link><description><![CDATA[This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62268</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 silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2922]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be,  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53469]]></link><description><![CDATA[G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be,  But twenty times I rather would be   An atheist clean,    Than under gospel colours hid be,     Just for a screen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His impact on Yale, Yale Hockey, and me personally has been profound. I enthusiastically embrace the challenge of building upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39694]]></link><description><![CDATA[His impact on Yale, Yale Hockey, and me personally has been profound. I enthusiastically embrace the challenge of building upon his legacy while taking the Yale Hockey program to the next level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said no. My original vision was that the photos would be black and white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31945]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said no. My original vision was that the photos would be black and white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgivness is The ultimate sacrifice.Eloquence belongs, To the conqueror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgivness is The ultimate sacrifice.Eloquence belongs, To the conqueror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42045]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48190]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would chuse to dy in Spain (where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49056]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is professed with greatest strictness).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25778]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a personnel perspective, the personnel matter has been resolved. We took what action needed to be taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38445]]></link><description><![CDATA[From a personnel perspective, the personnel matter has been resolved. We took what action needed to be taken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Word of God must always be heard quite specifically and in a new way, varying according to the conditions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Word of God must always be heard quite specifically and in a new way, varying according to the conditions under which it is preached. Faith is not an acceptance of general, abstract truths, but an answer and a decision at a certain time and in a very certain place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong,  Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong,  Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,   Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;    Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,     Purger of earth, and medicine of men;      Creating a sweet climate by my breath,       Washing out harms and griefs from memory,        And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,         Giving a hint of that which changes not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25223]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64663]]></link><description><![CDATA[By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15277]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64473]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doing nothing men learn to do evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48805]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doing nothing men learn to do evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the lily. For the flowers have great virtues for all senses. For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's creation. For there is a language of flowers. For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status. I once knew a boss who invariably picked up the phone to give orders before the end of the first paragraph in a status report. That response is guaranteed to squelch full disclosure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Many of those early relationships remain strong: Anderson's debut disc was co-produced by hit songwriter Jeffrey Steele and John Rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39711]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Many of those early relationships remain strong: Anderson's debut disc was co-produced by hit songwriter Jeffrey Steele and John Rich of Big & Rich.] I've been writing and working with Jeff and John for five years or more, so it was very natural in the studio, ... I think the whole creative process was different because we all ... know what works for us vocally and musically on stage as well as in the studio. I don't care how great the recording is, if you can't reproduce the sound and energy on stage it's a worthless cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1277]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46078]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace begins with a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace begins with a smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told,  And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17888]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told,  And in the last repeating troublesome,   Being urged at a time unreasonable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  I know what it is to doubt and question. And I suspect that every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  I know what it is to doubt and question. And I suspect that every Christian who takes the time to think seriously about his faith, does so too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The internet is a great way to get on the net. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The internet is a great way to get on the net.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24677]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24677</guid></item></channel></rss>