<?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[No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22868]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617  Those who think God did this almost incredible thing call it Good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617  Those who think God did this almost incredible thing call it Good Friday because only an extremely good God could do a thing like that. All religions attempt to bridge the gulf between the terrific purity of God and the sinfulness of man, but Christianity believes that God built that bridge Himself. This particular Friday commemorates His deliberate action in allowing Himself to be caught up in the sin-suffering-death mechanism which haunts mankind. He didn't let it end there, for He went on, right through death. But the men who believe in Him can't forget the kind of Person such an act reveals. That's why they call it Good Friday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In ancient times, the sacred Plough employ'd The Kings and awful Fathers of mankind:  And some, with whom compared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1966]]></link><description><![CDATA[In ancient times, the sacred Plough employ'd The Kings and awful Fathers of mankind:  And some, with whom compared your insect-tribes   Are but the beings of a summer's day,    Have held the Scale of Empire, ruled the Storm     Of mighty War; then, with victorious hand,      Disdaining little delicacies, seized       The Plough, and, greatly independent, scorned        All the vile stores corruption can bestow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think the market can make a lot of headway until we get an idea of the depth and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37128]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think the market can make a lot of headway until we get an idea of the depth and breadth of the profit recession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says A whale's a bird?--Ha! did you call my love?--  He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45356]]></link><description><![CDATA[An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says A whale's a bird?--Ha! did you call my love?--  He's here! He's there! he's everywhere!   An me! he's nowhere!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   Although it is indisputable that our Lord founded a church, it is an unproved assumption that the church is an aggregation of visible and organized societies. The theory upon which the public worship of the primitive churches proceeded was that each community was complete in itself, and that, in every act of public worship, every element of the community was present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40152]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is genius in homespun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is genius in homespun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55234]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you. -Jeff Warner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party?  Doth it not flow as hugely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party?  Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea   Till that the weary very means do ebb?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must make a plan so all Muslims will be able to supply the Palestinians with a yearly financial aid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29783]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must make a plan so all Muslims will be able to supply the Palestinians with a yearly financial aid package.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53504]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; Yet man is born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is, as it were, a second self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16828]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is, as it were, a second self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset? Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset? Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All we ask is to be let alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20728]]></link><description><![CDATA[All we ask is to be let alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Her inertia did not sit well with some in her immediate circle. They accused Ms. Apple of being lazy, crazy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34904]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Her inertia did not sit well with some in her immediate circle. They accused Ms. Apple of being lazy, crazy and unproductive, she said.] It really hurt a couple of close relationships of mine, ... It infuriated me because they couldn't believe that when I'm sitting and thinking that's how I work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46359]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/449]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11916]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been nice, but we took care of what we needed to take care of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been nice, but we took care of what we needed to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45120]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,  Signifying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51386]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,  Signifying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4091]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58502]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather be a dog and bay the moon Than such a Roman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather be a dog and bay the moon Than such a Roman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1870]]></link><description><![CDATA[It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way. -Edith Wharton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't ask for a more wonderful opera to end my tenure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28888]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't ask for a more wonderful opera to end my tenure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19743]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44987]]></link><description><![CDATA[A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/127]]></link><description><![CDATA[The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5976]]></link><description><![CDATA[It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43634]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue. [Fr., Je ne puis rien nommer si ce n'est par son nom;  J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rollet un fripon.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are charms made only for distant admiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5781]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are charms made only for distant admiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5781</guid></item></channel></rss>