<?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[But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50921]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  He who forgives not is not forgiven, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  He who forgives not is not forgiven, and the prayer of the Pharisee is as the weary beating of the surf of hell, while the cry of a soul out of its fire sets the heart-strings of Love trembling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49976</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 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53271]]></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/53271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're looking forward to the next step in the process, and it's a process that will go on over a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're looking forward to the next step in the process, and it's a process that will go on over a period of months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26648]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62043]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right: I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right: I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak,  Not weak of soul.--I will but hold in sight   Thy marvelous beauty.--Here is    She you seek!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's not growing, it's going to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21633]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's not growing, it's going to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4063]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think CVS is trying to defuse this by saying there was no financial risk, but I think there was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39574]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think CVS is trying to defuse this by saying there was no financial risk, but I think there was a very serious medical privacy concern,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27092]]></link><description><![CDATA[How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We usually start off slowly. We usually play better in the second half, but we just played well in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32111]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually start off slowly. We usually play better in the second half, but we just played well in the second quarter and they really struggled shooting the ball. Obviously, that made things easier for us. We didn't change anything. We went with our game plan. We just did a better job executing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15822]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home. [Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home. [Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum se intueri oportet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is robbed, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know't, and he's not robbed at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59140]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is robbed, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know't, and he's not robbed at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're just making smart investments because they know people are coming. They have the money, and they saw a hot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31336]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're just making smart investments because they know people are coming. They have the money, and they saw a hot market, so it was easy for them to step in in a big way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,  Writ in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,  Writ in remembrance more than things long past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man never fails because he never tries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man never fails because he never tries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57755]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covetous of the property of others and prodigal of his own. [Lat., Alieni appetens sui profusus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Covetous of the property of others and prodigal of his own. [Lat., Alieni appetens sui profusus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17134]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is the essence of everything successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is the essence of everything successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   The Christian must be consumed with the infinite beauty of holiness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   The Christian must be consumed with the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day:  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9805]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day:  But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts   Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;    Himself his own dungeon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10099]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good preacher should have these qualities and virtues: first, to teach systematically; second, he should have a ready wit; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8325]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good preacher should have these qualities and virtues: first, to teach systematically; second, he should have a ready wit; third, he should be eloquent; fourth, he should have a good voice; fifth, a good memory; sixth, he should know when to make an end; seventh, he should be sure of his doctrine; eighth, he should venture and engage body and blood, wealth and honor, in the world; ninth, he should suffer himself to be mocked and jeered of everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me; 'tis falsely said  That even there was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me; 'tis falsely said  That even there was intercourse   Between the living and the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which is worse? the wolf who cries beforeeating the lamb or the wolf who does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which is worse? the wolf who cries beforeeating the lamb or the wolf who does not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20009]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let deeds match words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let deeds match words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280   Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside -- this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10388]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47377]]></link><description><![CDATA[As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps. One generation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps. One generation plants trees, and the next enjoys the shade. If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1394</guid></item></channel></rss>