<?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[To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10005]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There is no greater happiness than this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are always flowers for those who want to see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60831]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are always flowers for those who want to see them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is that in the Gospel with which no one is allowed to argue. All we can do is believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8024]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is that in the Gospel with which no one is allowed to argue. All we can do is believe or disbelieve; to give it in our life the place of the final reality to which everything else must give way, or to refuse it that place. Many people ... would like to talk the Word of God over. It raises in their minds various questions they would willingly discuss. It has aspects of interest and of difficulty which call for consideration; and so on. Perhaps there are some that confusedly shield themselves against the responsibilities of faith and unbelief by such thoughts. All that such thoughts prove, however, is that those who cherish them have never yet realized that what we are dealing with in the Gospel is GOD. When God speaks in Christ, He reveals His gracious will without qualification. And without qualification, we have to believe in it, or refuse to believe, and so decide the controversy between ourselves and Him. God has not come into the world in Christ ... to be talked about, but to become the supreme reality on the life of men, or to be excluded from that place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16256]]></link><description><![CDATA[The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental inharmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably dominated for 70 minutes out of 90 tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38426]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably dominated for 70 minutes out of 90 tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30244]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times I might play some kind of folkloric flute, although I didn't play those with the frequency or the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33065]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times I might play some kind of folkloric flute, although I didn't play those with the frequency or the skill then as I do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.Live you life in a manner so that when you die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11381]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon,  Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23328]]></link><description><![CDATA[A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon,  Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of the mean,   And furbish falsehoods for a magazine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42849]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life is what your thoughts make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life is what your thoughts make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's kind of what makes us go. He's our team captain. He doesn't say much, but it's just the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36123]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's kind of what makes us go. He's our team captain. He doesn't say much, but it's just the way he plays and the way he goes about his business that makes him our sparkplug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  A great many of those about me would be imprisoned under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  A great many of those about me would be imprisoned under any law; in France, as here, they would be regular jail-birds. But I loved them better and better -- and still I knew how little was my love for them compared to Christ's. It is easy enough for a man to be honest and a "Good Christian" and keeper of "the moral law", when he has his own little room, his purse well filled -- when he is well shod and well fed. It is far less easy for a man who has to live from day to day, roaming from city to city, from factory to factory. It is far less easy for someone just out of jail, with nothing to wear but old down-at-the-heels shoes and a shirt in rags. All of a sudden, I understood our Lord's words: "I was in prison ... and you visited me not." All these men, lazy, outside the law, starving: these failures of all kinds -- they were dear to Christ -- they were Christ, waiting in prison for someone to lean over Him -- and if we were true Christians, we would do them every kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should have no trouble getting up for a school like Kentucky. The last couple of games we've been shaky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should have no trouble getting up for a school like Kentucky. The last couple of games we've been shaky early in the game. [Today] we have to play 40 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912   The kingdom of God does not consist in words, but in power, the power of Godliness. Though now we are fallen upon another method, we have turned all religion into faith, and our faith is nothing but the production of interest or disputing; it is adhering to a party and a wrangling against all the world beside--and when it is asked of what religion he is, we understand the meaning to be what faction does he follow, what are the articles of his sect, not what is the manner of his life: and if men be zealous for their party and that interest, then they are precious men, though otherwise they be covetous as the grave, factious as Dathan, schismatical as Korah, or proud as the fallen angels.  ... Jeremy Taylor  August 14, 2000 Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   Whether God revealed Himself to the patriarchs by oracles and visions, or suggested, by means of the ministry of men, what should be handed down by tradition to their posterity, it is beyond a doubt that their minds were impressed with a firm assurance of the doctrine, so that they were persuaded and convinced that the information they had received came from God... But since we are not favored with daily oracles from heaven, and since it is only in the Scriptures that the Lord hath been pleased to preserve His truth in perpetual remembrance, it obtains the same complete credit and authority with believers, when they are satisfied of its divine origin, as if they heard the very words pronounced by God Himself... Let it be considered, then, as an undeniable truth, that they who have been inwardly taught by the Spirit feel an entire acquiescence in the Scripture, and that it is self-authenticated, carrying with it its own evidence, and ought not to be made the subject of demonstration and arguments from reason; but it obtains the credit which it deserves with us by the testimony of the Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13428]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just forget about it and play the next play. We don't worry about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39041]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just forget about it and play the next play. We don't worry about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3050]]></link><description><![CDATA[In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49958]]></link><description><![CDATA[There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17335]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62872</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[Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61395]]></link><description><![CDATA[These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, minori.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt;  You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule   Should ever be kept at the front;--    Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head     And kick every worriment out of the bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54844]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26397]]></link><description><![CDATA[A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold,  And far across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51729]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold,  And far across the hills they went,   In that new world that is the old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37774]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like I did. I had a nasty childhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4512]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/123]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's 'plays'; or listened to the 'music' of John Cage; or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's 'plays'; or listened to the 'music' of John Cage; or looked at Andy Warhol's 'paintings'- has experienced that feeling of incredulous puzzlement: But this is nonsense! Can I really be expected to take this seriously?In fact, of course, it is necessary for it to be nonsense; if it made sense, it could be evaluated. The essence of modern intellectual snobbery is the 'emperor's new cloths' approach. Teachers, critics, our self-appointed intellectual elite, make it quite clear to us that if we cannot see the superlative nature of this 'art'- why, it merely shows our ignorance, our lack of sophistication and insight. Of course, they go beyond the storybook emperor's tailors, who dressed their victim in nothing and called it fine garments. The modern tailors dress the emperor in garbage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22775</guid></item></channel></rss>