<?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[Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   I think I have never heard a sermon preached on the story of Mary and Martha that did not attempt, somehow, somewhere, to explain away its text. Mary's, of course, was the better part -- the Lord said so, and we must not precisely contradict Him. But we will be careful not to despise Martha. No doubt, He approved of her, too. We could not get on without her, and indeed, having paid lip-service to God's opinion, we must admit that we greatly prefer her, for Martha was doing a really feminine job, whereas Mary was just behaving like any other disciple; and that is a hard pill to swallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21233]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No party will be able to get everything it wanted. A coalition is about sharing power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34785]]></link><description><![CDATA[No party will be able to get everything it wanted. A coalition is about sharing power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no reservations about the strength of this lineup and going out together. We're a very loyal culture. We're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41427]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no reservations about the strength of this lineup and going out together. We're a very loyal culture. We're loyal to products and to artists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41427</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[As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44180]]></link><description><![CDATA[As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51667]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33325]]></link><description><![CDATA[As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were devastated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were devastated,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people gathered to a political meeting, and the chief speaker spoke to them only for some quarter of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7848]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people gathered to a political meeting, and the chief speaker spoke to them only for some quarter of an hour, they would be annoyed, would feel with some resentment that he had not taken them seriously, had dealt much too cavalierly with the question of the hour, an Ulster boundary, or such like. But the things of the soul are far more momentous, and to be asked to deal with huge, unfathomable facts like the Cross in a few minutes, means that people are not really interested in these things. This is, of course, a snippety age, with a snippety press, and snippety novels. But must we preachers follow and be snippety, too?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My pride fell with my fortunes. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55629]]></link><description><![CDATA[My pride fell with my fortunes. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26121]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of creative things you can do as a consumer to further maximize your rebate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32291]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of creative things you can do as a consumer to further maximize your rebate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54876]]></link><description><![CDATA[And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By they I mean computers: I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24317]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12676]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we did enough solid things to win the game. There were stretches where we were pretty good defensively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37921]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we did enough solid things to win the game. There were stretches where we were pretty good defensively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53947]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the people involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, where did hunter win So delicate a skin  For her feet?   You lucky little kid,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, where did hunter win So delicate a skin  For her feet?   You lucky little kid,    You perished, so you did,     For my sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word "Action!" frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word "Action!" frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61209]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I am a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail,  Where'er the surge may sweep, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12063]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I am a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail,  Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,  Sweet is pleasure after pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,  Sweet is pleasure after pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Light that Failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25058]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Light that Failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an imaging system that's unique. It images physiology instead of anatomy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an imaging system that's unique. It images physiology instead of anatomy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.  [Ger., Es tragt Verstand und rechter Sinn,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45236]]></link><description><![CDATA[With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.  [Ger., Es tragt Verstand und rechter Sinn,   Mit wenig Kunst sich selber vor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26320]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44427]]></link><description><![CDATA[New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investment itself has evolved, and we try to evolve with it. It's different than it was 20 years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investment itself has evolved, and we try to evolve with it. It's different than it was 20 years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36434</guid></item></channel></rss>