<?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[Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cocaine isn't habit-forming. I should know - I've been using it for years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cocaine isn't habit-forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is more drest then the soule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is more drest then the soule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53881]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is harder than stone? What more soft than water?  Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50803]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is harder than stone? What more soft than water?  Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4546]]></link><description><![CDATA[All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Regan, she hath tied Sharp-toothed unkindness, like a vulture, here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60266]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Regan, she hath tied Sharp-toothed unkindness, like a vulture, here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56006]]></link><description><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No injury can be complained of by a consenting party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50555]]></link><description><![CDATA[No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66269]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider "not spiritual work" I can best help others, and I inwardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7899]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider "not spiritual work" I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interest and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is meat and drink to me. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55686]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is meat and drink to me. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41504]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our priority is the prosperity of Iraq and unity, without which there won't be security nor prosperity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our priority is the prosperity of Iraq and unity, without which there won't be security nor prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3410]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus Christ suffered and died to sanctify death and suffering; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus Christ suffered and died to sanctify death and suffering; he has been all that was great, and all that was abject, in order to sanctify in himself all things except sin, and to be the model of every condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies,  To make the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8905]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies,  To make the shifting clouds be what you please,   Or let the easily persuaded eyes    Own each quaint likeness issuing from the mould     Of a friend's fancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The impression is) that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up. As soon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32899]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The impression is) that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up. As soon as you drift out of Dade County you find that the Alice in Wonderland world ends at the Dade-Broward line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In jealousy there is more of self-love than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23180]]></link><description><![CDATA[In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the solution is simple, God is answering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65035]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the solution is simple, God is answering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65035</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 most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47155]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46941]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All beings are beautiful seen through eyes of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25891]]></link><description><![CDATA[All beings are beautiful seen through eyes of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47407]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4269]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64412]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5132]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.  The sudden blush ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.  The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;   They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,    And flare up bodily, wings and all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say we are Almost as like as eggs. -The Winter's Tale. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55772]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say we are Almost as like as eggs. -The Winter's Tale. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59344]]></link><description><![CDATA[This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a different team this year. Everyone is better. They all played travel ball during the summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38142]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a different team this year. Everyone is better. They all played travel ball during the summer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617   Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617   Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we are aware of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe a casual fan will take his kid to see [Pittsburgh Penguins No. 1 draft pick] Sidney Crosby. Will he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe a casual fan will take his kid to see [Pittsburgh Penguins No. 1 draft pick] Sidney Crosby. Will he go 41 other times? I don't think so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28660</guid></item></channel></rss>