<?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[Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ones that are lost will probably be lost for good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ones that are lost will probably be lost for good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray to God, but hammer away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray to God, but hammer away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touch the goblet no more! It will make thy heart sore  To its very core! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touch the goblet no more! It will make thy heart sore  To its very core!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22924</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[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17040]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47612]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14543]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11374]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks like it's coming straight for us in Dominica. We're going to start preparing the hotel tomorrow by boarding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33166]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks like it's coming straight for us in Dominica. We're going to start preparing the hotel tomorrow by boarding up the windows and collecting food and water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60403]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She told me immediately, 'He did not survive the storm and neither did his wife Susan and we've known for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34365]]></link><description><![CDATA[She told me immediately, 'He did not survive the storm and neither did his wife Susan and we've known for over two months but couldn't find any of his family members. So they didn't check. They didn't talk with FEMA, FEMA didn't talk with them and the Red Cross didn't talk to either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955  What doth it profit thee to enter into deep discussions concerning the Holy Trinity, if thou lack humility, and be thus displeasing to the Trinity? For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright; it is a good life which maketh a man dear to God. I had rather feel contrition than be skillful in the definition thereof. If thou knewest the whole Bible, and the sayings of all the philosophers, what should this profit thee without the love and grace of God?  ...Thomas à Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ April 11, 1996 Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  When an unskillful servant gathers many herbs, flowers, and seeds in a garden, you gather them out that are useful, and cast the rest out of sight; so Christ deals with our performances. All the ingredients of self that are in them He takes away, and adds incense to what remains, and presents it to God. This is the cause that the saints at the last day, when they meet their own duties and performances, know them not, they are so changed from what they were when they went out of their hand. "Lord, when saw we Thee naked or hungry?" So God accepts a little, and Christ makes our little a great deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important office ... that of private citizen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important office ... that of private citizen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot find in the Old Testament the fondly drawn distinction of our latter days between the natural and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot find in the Old Testament the fondly drawn distinction of our latter days between the natural and the supernatural, for the whole of the natural order is so directly linked with God that its conservation must be regarded as a kind of continuous creation, quite as dependent on God's creative Word as when first the heavens and the earth were made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25516]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some dried off better than others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some dried off better than others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars.  Not the bright stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58795]]></link><description><![CDATA[No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars.  Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,   Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,    Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows     Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34511]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mind your P's and Q's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mind your P's and Q's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38401]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a subtle but critical difference between something that is long term and something in the category of 'someday/maybe'. Either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33022]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a subtle but critical difference between something that is long term and something in the category of 'someday/maybe'. Either a project is an open loop to close, as soon as possible, or it is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tall oaks from little acorns grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tall oaks from little acorns grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When children stand quiet, they have done some ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50069]]></link><description><![CDATA[When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain;  To sit upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58320]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain;  To sit upon a hill, as I do now,   To carve out dials, quaintly, point by point,    Thereby to see the minutes, how they run--     How many makes the hour full complete,      How many hours brings about the day,       How many days will finish up the year,        How many years a mortal man may live;         When this is known, then to divide the times--          So many hours must I tend my flock,           So many hours must I take my rest,            So many hours must I contemplate,             So many hours must I sport myself;              So many days my ewes have been with young,               So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean,                So many months ere I shall shear the fleece.                 So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years,                  Passed over to the end they were created,                   Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.                    Ah, what a life were this!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8996]]></link><description><![CDATA[What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62347]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a case of surviving. It was not really a stage suited to the strengths of the Mitsubishis. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41117]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a case of surviving. It was not really a stage suited to the strengths of the Mitsubishis. It was interesting to compare our speed with the Volkswagens and now they have the twin turbo engines, there is really very little difference between us in terms of the top speed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13250]]></link><description><![CDATA[One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not disturb the sleeping dog. [It., Non stuzzicare il can che dorme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not disturb the sleeping dog. [It., Non stuzzicare il can che dorme.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12646</guid></item></channel></rss>