<?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[Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.  [Ger., Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergiebt,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.  [Ger., Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergiebt,   Ach! der ist bald allein.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who can really benefit from our songs are the girls in middle America and the only way you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who can really benefit from our songs are the girls in middle America and the only way you can really get through to them is TV.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28731]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Hero is one who hangs on one minute longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Hero is one who hangs on one minute longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm speechless and so happy to be in the finals. As a kid, I always looked up to people above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32182]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm speechless and so happy to be in the finals. As a kid, I always looked up to people above me to see what they could do. I think I passed some of them, most of them, and I'm happy about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playboy has done a good job of positioning themselves on the Internet and with other forms of media. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playboy has done a good job of positioning themselves on the Internet and with other forms of media. They have transitioned the company where it could be a brand for decades to come,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179  That earth and that heaven, which spent God himself, Almighty God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179  That earth and that heaven, which spent God himself, Almighty God, six days in finishing, Moses sets up in a few syllables, in one line: In the beginning God created heaven and earth. If a Livie or a Guicciardine, or such extensive and voluminous authors had had this story in hand, God must have made another world, to have made them a library to hold their books, of the making of this world. Into what wire would they have drawn out this earth! Into what leaf-gold would they have beat out these heavens! It may assist our conjecture herein, to consider, that amongst those men, who proceed with a sober modesty and limitation in their writing, & make a conscience not to clog the world with unnecessary books, yet the volumes which are written by them, upon the beginning of Genesis, are scarce less than infinite. God did no more but say, Let this & this be done; and Moses doth no more but say, that upon God's saying it was done. God required not Nature to help him to do it; Moses required not Reason to help him believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not routine, but it's pretty close to it. He should be as good as new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35903]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not routine, but it's pretty close to it. He should be as good as new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed.  You must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed.  You must not dare for shame to talk of mercy;   For your own reasons turn into your bosoms    As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May:  Waiting for the pleasant rambles   Where the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May:  Waiting for the pleasant rambles   Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles,    Where the woodbine alternating,     Scent the dewy way;      Ah! my heart is weary, waiting,       Waiting for the May.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book,  And calculating profits--so much help   By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book,  And calculating profits--so much help   By so much reading. It is rather when    We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge     Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,      Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth--       'Tis then we get the right good from a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16787]]></link><description><![CDATA[One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, ... he was telling the guys not to take things for granted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, ... he was telling the guys not to take things for granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The industry keeps saying that this is a West Coast phenomenon, ... I don't think we know it's just the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The industry keeps saying that this is a West Coast phenomenon, ... I don't think we know it's just the West Coast. I think this industry has some rocky roads ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   We must be willing to accept the bitter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God. It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves. We cannot suffer well unless we see Christ everywhere, both in suffering and in the charity of those who come to the aid of our affliction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28573]]></link><description><![CDATA[True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon  It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon  It works, on e'er self-transmutative form,   Common to now the living, now the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. -Alden Nowlan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65413]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst;  'Twas the corrupted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10192]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst;  'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd   Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world;    That Sun like this (from which our sight we have)     Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29542]]></link><description><![CDATA[With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  To realize that you are safe and happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  To realize that you are safe and happy standing at God's side, with His love encompassing you because you are forgiven; too happy to take offense any more; too much in love with life to want to be made miserable with an unforgiving heart, and knowing that now every conflict is a chance to learn more of the exceeding beauty of Love: that is worth living for, and surely worth dying to this misery-making self for. [Continued tomorrow]  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  February 5, 1998  And let us be grateful beyond words for this: that God will not let us alone until we have learnt it and stand by His side. He troubles us, He brings His disturbing light back and back to us, showing us how coarse and heavy the dying self, seeking her own, is; how horrible it is that any feeling of unforgiveness, accepted and held on to, towards our brother, drives God from our side; how quickly we must do all we can to heal the separation, because we are out in the cold and the dark indeed, if divorced from that Love.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  February 6, 1998  Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597  Prayer is the expression of a good desire. The human heart is full of restless desires, and the prayers of men consist for the most part of the unsifted petitions which are urged by their varying passions. To desire what is right, and to desire it consistently, and passionately, is the first condition of true living; the desires can be corrected only by truth, the mind must apprehend God, and then it will say, "There is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it might be fun to have twins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it might be fun to have twins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Automotive demand carried the market through the recession years but must now cope with a modest downturn in late 2005 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Automotive demand carried the market through the recession years but must now cope with a modest downturn in late 2005 and across 2006. Thus, special quality bars will continue to see softer demand from this key market in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20567]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I crank out crude imitations of what's already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don't care about the difference, anyway! And what good is originality if you can't crank it out?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54102]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53640]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye!  When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye!  When I behold thee, though my light be dim,   Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him    Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne,     And minds the covenant between all and One.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  The Church is her true self only when she exists for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to be safe is never to feel secure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54639]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to be safe is never to feel secure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, I hate rats! In my time, I've picked up all sorts of things in hotels-fleas, lice, tapeworm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do no great things; only small things with great love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2178]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do no great things; only small things with great love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You wake up but not really. In the bedroom you grew up in. It's the only place on this entire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18372]]></link><description><![CDATA[You wake up but not really. In the bedroom you grew up in. It's the only place on this entire planet that is yours. The only place on the planet that understands you. It understands the way your nerves flare everytime you think about talking to anyone, scared into shyness at the thought of opening your mouth but the way you are the best hypocrite around when you're in front of a microphone. It knows what turns that switch on and off and on again. It understands the way when you don't have a smile on your face everyone only spits: "what's wrong"s and "you look tired"s. So the way you keep it on your face just wide enough to avoid questions. It understands how neurotic you have become, the way you treat your flaws like old friends. The way you look in the mirror and think of yourself as "Mr. Misery"...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A church debt is the devil's salary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A church debt is the devil's salary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543   True it is that every man willingly followeth his own bent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543   True it is that every man willingly followeth his own bent, and is the more inclined to those who agree with him. But if Christ is amongst us, then it is necessary that we sometimes yield up our own opinion for the sake of peace. Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Though thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42943]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Booke When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke  Fresh to all Ages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55304]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Booke When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke  Fresh to all Ages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music tells no truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music tells no truths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43427</guid></item></channel></rss>