<?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[In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49541]]></link><description><![CDATA[In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reconciliation of man to God begins when God accepts the child of man, exactly as he is, into a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reconciliation of man to God begins when God accepts the child of man, exactly as he is, into a relationship with himself -- "this grace wherein we stand". This He does for the sake of what man is to inherit, to become. And for the means, He gives him over to a Person, Christ, and a community, the Church; and in attachment to these, personality grows, freedom is attained, sin is forgiven, estrangement is ended, capacities for relationship extend. Reconciliation is the Spirit's liberating work of love, exercised through a Person and a community of persons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The open door tempts a saint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The open door tempts a saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65586]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not only hear all thy sinful works, and words, and thoughts repeated, which thou thy self hadst utterly forgot, but thou shalt hear thy good works, thine alms, thy coming to Church, thy hearing of Sermons, given in evidence against thee, because they had hypocrisy mingled in them; yea, thou shalt find even thy repentance to condemn thee, because thou madest that but a door to a relapse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel,  I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel,  I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1624]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silent, grim, colossal, the Big City has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iron; they say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silent, grim, colossal, the Big City has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iron; they say that nothing of pity beats in its bosom; they compare its streets with lonely forests and deserts of lava. But beneath the hard crust of the lobster is found a delectable and luscious food. Perhaps a different simile would have been wiser. Still nobody should take offence. We would call nobody a lobster with good and sufficient claws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A college joke to cure the dumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23245]]></link><description><![CDATA[A college joke to cure the dumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43185]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Molly kept house for him when she was older. But when she was younger, she was quite a rakish young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Molly kept house for him when she was older. But when she was younger, she was quite a rakish young woman. She had an affair with a married man in the 1890s that was the talk of Cincinnati.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I choose dialogue, the other party should define the goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42612]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I choose dialogue, the other party should define the goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With ravish'd ears The monarch hears,  Assumes the god,   Affects to nod,    And seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17747]]></link><description><![CDATA[With ravish'd ears The monarch hears,  Assumes the god,   Affects to nod,    And seems to shake the spheres.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We might not need Barry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34859]]></link><description><![CDATA[We might not need Barry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66385]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27477]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people that make balloon animals, I always think of their relatives and how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27490]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people that make balloon animals, I always think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is abscent when the act is justified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is abscent when the act is justified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no more our verse would scrawl,   For Shakespeare he had said it all!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with people is that they're only human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with people is that they're only human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To build castles in Spain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20520]]></link><description><![CDATA[To build castles in Spain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19929]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension so we must do what we can with the third.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think INXS wants to see a darker side of me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think INXS wants to see a darker side of me,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the challenges that we have as we move forward in the early part of the 21st century is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37026]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the challenges that we have as we move forward in the early part of the 21st century is to understand how we can help people make the right choices to understand that they have real control of a lot of the health risks in their lives,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13876]]></link><description><![CDATA[To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first in a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32801]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first in a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13487]]></link><description><![CDATA[The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life are free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life are free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But all's to no end, for the time will not mend Till the King enjoys his own again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54493]]></link><description><![CDATA[But all's to no end, for the time will not mend Till the King enjoys his own again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish and visitors stink after three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish and visitors stink after three days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example is leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example is leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes, almost two genera- a small minority that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52198]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes, almost two genera- a small minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them. The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority, and to the minority only. The majority has no more to do with it than it has to do with ecclesiastic politics on Mars. In so far as that heritage is apprehended, it is viewed with enmity. But in the main it is not apprehended at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stern is the visage of necessity. [Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stern is the visage of necessity. [Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One forgives to the degree that one loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64285]]></link><description><![CDATA[One forgives to the degree that one loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64285</guid></item></channel></rss>