<?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[Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19326]]></link><description><![CDATA[The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have cheveril consciences that will stretch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9788]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1095]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4385]]></link><description><![CDATA[While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3652</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[The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next week is characterized by very low liquidity in Brazilian financial markets, and no major economic data are released. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next week is characterized by very low liquidity in Brazilian financial markets, and no major economic data are released.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace begins with a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace begins with a smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23900]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. [Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. [Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43881]]></link><description><![CDATA[A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57090]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be at all is to be religious more or less ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be at all is to be religious more or less]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833   The fool for Christ holds a prophetic role in Christianity, from the early church to Russian Orthodox "pilgrims" and such later fools as Luther, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, who were seekers after the true, the good, the holy, the beautiful. They were insane -- not in a clinical sense, but in the madness of the Holy, an insanity which ordinary sanity refuses to admit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6857</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[The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12888]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60656]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A comprehensive deal is a comprehensive deal, which means all issues are addressed by everyone. Otherwise, it's a piecemeal deal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A comprehensive deal is a comprehensive deal, which means all issues are addressed by everyone. Otherwise, it's a piecemeal deal. ... It is not acceptable that we should fall short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all alike, on the inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all alike, on the inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43546]]></link><description><![CDATA[The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what we like. But we couldn't put them away. They just kept hanging around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34196]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what we like. But we couldn't put them away. They just kept hanging around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say.  'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say.  'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin'   And Lady Morgan making tay.    For 'tis the capital of the finest nation,     With charmin' pisintry upon a fruitful sod,      Fightin' like devils for conciliation,       And hatin' each other for the Love of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.  [Ger., Die Kirch' allein, meine lieben ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.  [Ger., Die Kirch' allein, meine lieben Frauen,   Kann ungerechtes Gut verdauen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died. [Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died. [Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59700]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wonders of each region view, From frozen Lapland to Peru. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wonders of each region view, From frozen Lapland to Peru.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one;  Belshazzar's correspondence   Concluded and begun    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one;  Belshazzar's correspondence   Concluded and begun    In that immortal copy     The conscience of us all      Can read without its glasses       On revelation's wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, as we know Him, is a gift to us from Christ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7753]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, as we know Him, is a gift to us from Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1355]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1355</guid></item></channel></rss>