<?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['Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it,  And what the word did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12634]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it,  And what the word did make it,   That I believe and take it.   - Elizabeth I,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I can bring a positive image back to the commission. I think there's some division, and I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I can bring a positive image back to the commission. I think there's some division, and I want to try to bring them all together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst  Of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62506]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst  Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15624]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have an imposing front line, and we had a tough time matching up against them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39729]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have an imposing front line, and we had a tough time matching up against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63815]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth it's spark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63100]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556   One of the catchwords in contemporary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556   One of the catchwords in contemporary Protestantism is that religion must aid man in "becoming human" or even "truly human" -- whatever that means -- and the "model" is Christ. Take the "obvious things" about Christ as listed by a contemporary minister:  He was a popular and controversial preacher; He gathered a group of followers; He spent most of his time with the disinherited; He taught with authority; He never married; He never (so far as we know) held a job; He did not participate in public affairs; He did not have income, property, or an address; He was in bitter and frequent conflict with the religious and political authorities; He seemed to expect that the world would be eminently, radically, and supernaturally transformed; He attacked the traditions and values of his own people; He practically forced the authorities to prosecute and execute him. There is nothing exclusively religious, much less Christian, in this description, which, with a few exceptions, might apply also to Socrates or to "Che" Guevara. I asked many socially oriented ministers why they were Christians at all. Some said through faith, and some said that Christianity gave them courage and the motivation to endure (but so do other beliefs). Some said they hardly knew and that, if another, more acceptable, ideology came along, they would embrace it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3963]]></link><description><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon is a silver pin-head vast, That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon is a silver pin-head vast, That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25706]]></link><description><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me another horse: bind up my wounds. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me another horse: bind up my wounds. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46607]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Head Start plays a big role. We start at a younger age to cut the barriers of culture, but education ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Head Start plays a big role. We start at a younger age to cut the barriers of culture, but education I think that's more important than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42039]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For many are called, but few are chosen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6052]]></link><description><![CDATA[For many are called, but few are chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58423]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43345]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is atragedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is atragedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25155]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44630]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La satire ment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'eloge ment apres leur mort.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22484]]></link><description><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion- in the long run, these are the only people who count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time undermines us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time undermines us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think God is a giant vibrator in the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think God is a giant vibrator in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22018]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I will squeeze her until you can hear the pips squeak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a bulldog goes after a cat - with every fiber in him tense with eagerness and determination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53456]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53456</guid></item></channel></rss>