<?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[A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24765]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will is character in action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will is character in action]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fast bind, fast find-- A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fast bind, fast find-- A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's 'plays'; or listened to the 'music' of John Cage; or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's 'plays'; or listened to the 'music' of John Cage; or looked at Andy Warhol's 'paintings'- has experienced that feeling of incredulous puzzlement: But this is nonsense! Can I really be expected to take this seriously?In fact, of course, it is necessary for it to be nonsense; if it made sense, it could be evaluated. The essence of modern intellectual snobbery is the 'emperor's new cloths' approach. Teachers, critics, our self-appointed intellectual elite, make it quite clear to us that if we cannot see the superlative nature of this 'art'- why, it merely shows our ignorance, our lack of sophistication and insight. Of course, they go beyond the storybook emperor's tailors, who dressed their victim in nothing and called it fine garments. The modern tailors dress the emperor in garbage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved) into heroes who would stop at nothing? A swindle? Hallucination? Spooky nonsense in a darkened room? Or Somebody quietly doing what He said He'd do -- walk right through death? What do YOU think?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Sang To Me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You Sang To Me,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation is quite desperate. It's the hardest drought that has ever faced this country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation is quite desperate. It's the hardest drought that has ever faced this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Christ came, not so much to preach the Gospel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Christ came, not so much to preach the Gospel, as that there might be a Gospel to preach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are things to learn in the reviews of how primary schools and nurseries alert parents of child absences. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34776]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are things to learn in the reviews of how primary schools and nurseries alert parents of child absences. That is on-going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbradings; Unquiet meals make ill digestions;  Thereof the raging fire of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbradings; Unquiet meals make ill digestions;  Thereof the raging fire of fever bred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist   Paul Tillich can show us that the unity which we seek as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist   Paul Tillich can show us that the unity which we seek as Christians must involve our denominations in changes even greater than those which many of us now expect. His insistence on taking seriously the gropings of all men for the truth about their lives must be allowed to remind the ecumenical movement that the word oikoumene is Greek not for "the Church" but for "the whole inhabited world". The ecumenical movement is more than Christian patriarchs kissing. Christian unity means the unity of mankind in finding and obeying God. Tillich can teach us that the Church must not shut its door to celebrate a family reunion while a single child of God remains outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45772]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You put the body on autopilot and let the emotional part of the performance guide you. -Julianne Kepley. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14801]]></link><description><![CDATA[You put the body on autopilot and let the emotional part of the performance guide you. -Julianne Kepley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cannot be used for student housing, ... A lot of landlords aren't interested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35830]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cannot be used for student housing, ... A lot of landlords aren't interested.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25900]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19878]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your day will come is another way of saying you get yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your day will come is another way of saying you get yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An angel with a trumpet said, "Forever more, forever more,  The reign of violence is o'er!" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10789]]></link><description><![CDATA[An angel with a trumpet said, "Forever more, forever more,  The reign of violence is o'er!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dog years, I'm dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12683]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dog years, I'm dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want to die ... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want to die ... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday I had no God but these, The sacerdotal trees, And they uplifted me,  "I hung upon a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday I had no God but these, The sacerdotal trees, And they uplifted me,  "I hung upon a Tree." The sun and moon I saw, And reverential awe Subdued me day and night,  "I am the perfect light." Within a lifeless stone -- All other gods unknown -- I sought Divinity,  "The Corner-stone am I." For sacrificial feast I slaughtered man and beast, Red recompense to gain.  "So I a Lamb was slain." "Yea, such My hungering Grace That whereso'er My face Is hidden, none may grope  Beyond eternal Hope.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take, I'll watch the tears fall from your eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,  A flash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,  A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,   Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24509]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44372]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A referendum ...by High Point residents would certainly be a guiding force, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35310]]></link><description><![CDATA[A referendum ...by High Point residents would certainly be a guiding force,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it seems as far as it was prudent to bid man go. The "greater love than this" of which our Lord speaks, though He does not command it, is to give oneself for one's friends. And when one does this, or is ready to do this, prayer even for "us" seems too selfish -- and it is unnecessary, for we then possess all that God Himself can give us. The easy renunciation of self for the Beloved becomes the very breath of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do love My country's good with a respect more tender,  More holy and profound, then mine own life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do love My country's good with a respect more tender,  More holy and profound, then mine own life,   My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase,    And treasure of my loins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where you have friends you should not go to inns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where you have friends you should not go to inns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You and I were long friends : you are now my enemy, and I am yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13815]]></link><description><![CDATA[You and I were long friends : you are now my enemy, and I am yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a good, good man, very involved in the lives of his two teenage daughters, ... He was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39161]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a good, good man, very involved in the lives of his two teenage daughters, ... He was a big soccer coach. His wife and family were number one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our biggest hazard out here is packrats. We don't want brush piles to build, so we prune our trees every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our biggest hazard out here is packrats. We don't want brush piles to build, so we prune our trees every year near the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34694</guid></item></channel></rss>