<?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[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate... Before we can change direction, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate... Before we can change direction, we have to question many of the assumptions underlying our current philosophy. Assumptions like bigger is better; you can't stop progress; no speed is too fast; globalization is good. Then we have to replace them with some different assumptions: small is beautiful; roots and traditions are worth preserving; variety is the spice of life; the only work worth doing is meaningful work; biodiversity is the necessary pre-condition for human survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26926]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn, His God-like forehead by the mock crown torn,  A little bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn, His God-like forehead by the mock crown torn,  A little bird took from that crown one thorn.   To soothe the dear Redeemer's throbbing head,    That bird did what she could; His blood, 'tis said,     Down dropping, dyed her tender bosom red.      Since then no wanton boy disturbs her nest;       Weasel nor wild cat will her young molest;        All sacred deem the bird of ruddy breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of the most emotionally eloquent performances of the year. It shows how Hollywood has just scratched the surface ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33122]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of the most emotionally eloquent performances of the year. It shows how Hollywood has just scratched the surface of her talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The outlines of an Asian employment crisis are already taking shape. Strong economic growth alone will not solve the [region's] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The outlines of an Asian employment crisis are already taking shape. Strong economic growth alone will not solve the [region's] problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foolish tongues talke by the dozen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54579]]></link><description><![CDATA[From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really a mix of our two cultures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39362]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really a mix of our two cultures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,  And say, within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,  And say, within the moonlight in his room,   Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,    An angel, writing in a book of gold;     Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,      And to the presence in the room he said--       "What writest thou?" The Vision raised its head,        And, with a look made all of sweet accord,         Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultures contain many cues and inducements to dissuade the individual from approaching ultimate limits, in much the same way that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultures contain many cues and inducements to dissuade the individual from approaching ultimate limits, in much the same way that a special warning strip of land around the edge of a baseball field lets a player know that he is about to run into a concrete wall when he is preoccupied with catching the ball. The wider that strip of land and the more sensitive the player is to the changing composition of the ground under his feet as he pursues the ball, the more effective the warning. Romanticizing or lionizing as "individualistic" those people who disregard social cues and inducements increases the danger of head-on collisions with inherent social limits. Decrying various forms of social disapproval is in effect narrowing the warning strip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think in generalities, but we live in detail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65913]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think in generalities, but we live in detail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodies birds sing madrigals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54327]]></link><description><![CDATA[By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodies birds sing madrigals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29852]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the sea intoning, Only the wainscot-mouse,  Only the wild wind moaning   Over the lonely house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the sea intoning, Only the wainscot-mouse,  Only the wild wind moaning   Over the lonely house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prom is an exciting time for teenagers. The perfect dress is any dress that they feel beautiful and confident wearing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prom is an exciting time for teenagers. The perfect dress is any dress that they feel beautiful and confident wearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you give up, think of the reason why you held on so long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you give up, think of the reason why you held on so long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14046]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43164]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a fearful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a fearful thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65565]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace without justice is tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace without justice is tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream of a cat is filled with mice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream of a cat is filled with mice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Christ, and therefore with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Christ, and therefore with a difference, and to be able to explain, or at least to state, the reason and cause of the difference to men who see it... His preaching is essentially private conversation, and has at the back of it facts, facts of a life which explain and illustrate and enforce his words... It is such missionary work, done consciously and deliberately as missionary, that the world needs today. Everybody, Christian and pagan alike, respects such work; and, when it is so done, men wonder, and inquire into the secret of a life which they instinctively admire and covet for themselves... The spirit which inspires love of others and efforts after their well-being, both in body and soul, they cannot but admire and covet -- unless, indeed, seeing that it would reform their own lives, they dread and hate it, because they do not desire to be reformed. In either case, it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22825]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres.   Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight through hardship. But He leads! And amidst the hardship, He is nearer to them than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22851]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was warmer diving into the pool in Abu Dhabi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41908]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was warmer diving into the pool in Abu Dhabi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mob is the mother of tyrants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mob is the mother of tyrants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64769]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last of our enemies is laid low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last of our enemies is laid low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most expensive wedding usually ends with the quickest divorce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most expensive wedding usually ends with the quickest divorce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ... Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. Character is supreme in life, and hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing -- so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15256]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45218]]></link><description><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We say, not lightly but very literally, that the truth has made us free. They say that it makes us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7592]]></link><description><![CDATA[We say, not lightly but very literally, that the truth has made us free. They say that it makes us so free that it cannot be the truth. To them it is like believing in fairyland to believe in such freedom as we enjoy. It is like believing in men with wings to entertain the fancy of men with wills. It is like accepting a fable about a squirrel in conversation with a mountain to believe in a man who is free to ask or a God who is free to answer. This is a manly and a rational negation, for which I for one shall always show respect. But I decline to show any respect for those who first of all clip the bird and cage the squirrel, rivet the chains and refuse the freedom, close all the doors of the cosmic prison on us with a clang of eternal iron, tell us that our emancipation is a dream and our dungeon a necessity; and then calmly turn round and tell us they have a freer thought and a more liberal theology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare  That kill the bloom before its time,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45622]]></link><description><![CDATA[And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare  That kill the bloom before its time,   And blanch, without the owner's crime,    The most resplendent hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have told us in letters and phone calls that they have to jog from Lincoln Center to make their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41656]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have told us in letters and phone calls that they have to jog from Lincoln Center to make their train. We hear plenty of tales of missed trains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest. [Lat., Quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest. [Lat., Quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18428</guid></item></channel></rss>