<?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[Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The picture of a shadow is a positive thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6085]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1146]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;  Still to my brother turns, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;  Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,   And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say that which is instructive and also pleasing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48554]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the only rating that should matter to her because people are voting with their money, by betting that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39077]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the only rating that should matter to her because people are voting with their money, by betting that the peso will continue to climb because she would pursue her economic reforms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66738]]></link><description><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22520]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do no great things; only small things with great love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25860]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do no great things; only small things with great love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to show respect for the sword for the audience to believe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37374]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to show respect for the sword for the audience to believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are taking sure, steady steps to a place where the state of Israel will no longer be a democracy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29088]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are taking sure, steady steps to a place where the state of Israel will no longer be a democracy and a home for the Jewish people,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9396]]></link><description><![CDATA[All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62149]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose, and due leisure, whether he be a painter or ploughman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string,  Make bracelets to adorn the wife   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string,  Make bracelets to adorn the wife   Of the eternal, glorious King.    On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope;     Blessings are plentiful and rife.      More plentiful than hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can.  Where he falls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27381]]></link><description><![CDATA[View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can.  Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone   Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study the past if you would divine the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study the past if you would divine the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53242]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64109]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. "Religion" means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime requires further crime to conceal it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime requires further crime to conceal it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more men threatned then stricken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49946]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more men threatned then stricken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach the top, keep climbing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12710]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach the top, keep climbing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46618]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methought little space 'tween those hills intervened, But nearer,--more lofty,--more shaggy they seemed.  The clouds o'er their summits they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methought little space 'tween those hills intervened, But nearer,--more lofty,--more shaggy they seemed.  The clouds o'er their summits they calmly did rest,   And hung on the ether's invisible breast;    Than the vapours of earth they seemed purer, more bright,--     Oh! could they be clouds? 'Twas the necklace of night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45187]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are observing the increase of our cropland and may become important suppliers, as Brazil imports over 50% of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28247]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are observing the increase of our cropland and may become important suppliers, as Brazil imports over 50% of its needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Every action of our lives touches on some chord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to school does not make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to school does not make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43656]]></link><description><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  It might help us in our thinking if we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  It might help us in our thinking if we drew a distinction between preaching, which the New Testament talks about as a continuing activity in society at large, and sermonising, which we have made into a special activity in the church premises... A great many people sermonising in our churches today would be better off and of greater service if they absolved themselves from the bondage and disciplines of the pulpit and came down among their congregations, teaching informally on sounder educational principles. After all, the vital matter in the ministry of the Word is not that a clergyman delivers himself of a discourse but that the people to whom he ministers end up being taught something. The tragedy is that the professional clergy have been trained to sermonise and they seem overwhelmed with fears and a sense of insecurity when they contemplate other methods. A further problem, of course, is that most of our churches contain a significant number of people who become emotionally disturbed at any departure from what they have always done in the past. To them, the sermon is part of their Christianity -- even if it bores them stiff!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Jesus! 'tis Thy Holy Face   Is here the star that guides my way; Thy countenance, so full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Jesus! 'tis Thy Holy Face   Is here the star that guides my way; Thy countenance, so full of grace,   Is heaven on earth, for me, to-day. And love finds holy charms for me   In Thy sweet eyes with tear-drops wet; Through mine own tears I smile at Thee,   And in Thy griefs my pains forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3943]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61277]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but there's no conscious part of Catholicism in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but there's no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37980</guid></item></channel></rss>