<?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[I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his. [Fr., Moi, je ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54456]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his. [Fr., Moi, je serai autocrate: c'est mon metier. Et le bon Dieu me pardonnnera: c'est son metier.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many things become beautiful when you really look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66860]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many things become beautiful when you really look.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All autobiography is self-indulgent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3226]]></link><description><![CDATA[All autobiography is self-indulgent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have measured many a mile To tread a measure with you on this grass. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55502]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have measured many a mile To tread a measure with you on this grass. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, stars and angels gave the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, stars and angels gave the sign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great unwashed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great unwashed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! how easily things go wrong! A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long,  And then comes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! how easily things go wrong! A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long,  And then comes a mist and a weeping rain,   And life is never the same again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56857]]></link><description><![CDATA[The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 From subtle love of softening things, From easy choices, weakenings, (Not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 From subtle love of softening things, From easy choices, weakenings, (Not thus are spirits fortified; Not this way went the Crucified;) From all that dims Thy Calvary, 0 Lamb of God, deliver me. Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire; Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since you have forsaken the world and turned wholly to God, you are symbolically dead in the eyes of men; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since you have forsaken the world and turned wholly to God, you are symbolically dead in the eyes of men; therefore, let your heart be dead to all earthly affections and concerns, and wholly devoted to our Lord Jesus Christ. For you must be well aware that if we make an outward show of conversion to God without giving Him our hearts, it is only a shadow and pretence of virtue, and no true conversion. Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and behavior, is a wretched creature. For they watch the doings of other people and criticize their faults, imagining themselves to be something when in reality they are nothing. In this way they deceive themselves. Be careful to avoid this, and devote yourself inwardly to His likeness by humility, charity, and other spiritual virtues. In this way you will be truly converted to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45201]]></link><description><![CDATA[I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a certain sense all men are historians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19321]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a certain sense all men are historians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/819]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,  And regards the quadrille ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11038]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,  And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery   Than crushing His African children with slavery,    Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon     Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion,      Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows,       Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have started that which the country will not willingly let die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32005]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26649]]></link><description><![CDATA[All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good questions outrank easy answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good questions outrank easy answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4363]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone hears only what he understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone hears only what he understands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just then, as by the tumult riven, Poured down at once the lowering heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just then, as by the tumult riven, Poured down at once the lowering heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/77]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/77</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Congress has pre-supposed some situation where it is appropriate to bypass the court of appeals, and if not this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Congress has pre-supposed some situation where it is appropriate to bypass the court of appeals, and if not this case, then what case would it ever be?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17237]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's very happy, and a lot of players need to be happy off the field to be playing well on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35972]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's very happy, and a lot of players need to be happy off the field to be playing well on the field, and I'd say Archie is that kind of person,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't find anyone more composed closer to goal. He finds little holes the goalies give him, he knows which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31658]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't find anyone more composed closer to goal. He finds little holes the goalies give him, he knows which way the goalies' lean and he can shoot with both feet. Off the ball he makes great runs. For me, around the goal he's one of the best finishers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder is the basis of worship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder is the basis of worship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness ruins the constitution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness ruins the constitution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10300]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a wearer of new clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12969]]></link><description><![CDATA[I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a wearer of new clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17512]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant, perfidious man.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant, perfidious man.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48858</guid></item></channel></rss>