<?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[Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads. [Fr., La France est une monarchie absolue, temperee par des chansons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16613]]></link><description><![CDATA[France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads. [Fr., La France est une monarchie absolue, temperee par des chansons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce,  As a grave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/426]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce,  As a grave matron would to dance with girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forethought is easy, repentance hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forethought is easy, repentance hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should use praise to recognize what one is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22270]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should use praise to recognize what one is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must maintain our competitive advantage on commerce traffic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29479]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must maintain our competitive advantage on commerce traffic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59115]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a series on God and the human condition:  Those old Greek gods are not just poetry and legend. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a series on God and the human condition:  Those old Greek gods are not just poetry and legend. In them the Ancients personified living realities -- intelligence, beauty, love, or lust, which are still at work in our hearts, and which fashion our persons. The language they speak is that of image and myth, which touches the person much more directly than the explicit language of science and the intellectual dialectic of the modern world. It is also the language of the Bible, of the parables of Christ, which the rationalist of today finds it so difficult to understand, of the Word of God which demands of us not a discussion but a personal decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were expecting such an escalation, and we will witness more in the next few weeks, ... We will deal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were expecting such an escalation, and we will witness more in the next few weeks, ... We will deal with it and crush it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strict law is often great injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strict law is often great injustice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what we'd do if they go out of business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what we'd do if they go out of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person among us deserves any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10317]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person among us deserves any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ye talk together still, In the language wherewith Spring  Letters cowslips on the hill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10544]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ye talk together still, In the language wherewith Spring  Letters cowslips on the hill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664  We cannot understand the depth of the Christian doctrine of sin if we give to it only a moral connotation. To break the basic laws of justice and decency is sin indeed. Man's freedom to honor principles is the moral dimension in his nature, and sin often appears as lawlessness. But sin has its roots in something which is more than the will to break the law. The core of sin is our making ourselves the center of life, rather than accepting the holy God as the center. Lack of trust, self-love, pride -- these are three ways in which Christians have expressed the real meaning of sin. But what sin does is to make the struggle with evil meaningless. When we refuse to hold our freedom in trust and reverence for God's will, there is nothing which can make the risk of life worth the pain of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way  Until the peacock led him in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46001]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way  Until the peacock led him in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like a micro cog in a macrocosm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like a micro cog in a macrocosm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41623]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may not like this man. You may hate his guts. But you can't convict him on the indictment the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32949]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may not like this man. You may hate his guts. But you can't convict him on the indictment the government brought to this court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20381]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. -Benjamin Disraeli.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Itsefficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Itsefficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which Godforgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59820]]></link><description><![CDATA[...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13788]]></link><description><![CDATA[All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/620]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end, everything is a gag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20059]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end, everything is a gag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are more striking than the change which has taken place during my own lifetime in the attitude of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are more striking than the change which has taken place during my own lifetime in the attitude of the intelligentsia towards the spokesmen of Christian opinion. When I was a child, bishops expressed doubts about the Resurrection, and were called courageous. When I was a girl, G. K. Chesterton professed belief in the Resurrection, and was called whimsical. When I was at college, thoughtful people expressed belief in the Resurrection "in a spiritual sense", and were called advanced; (any other kind of belief was called obsolete, and its professors were held to be simpleminded). When I was middle-aged, a number of lay persons, including some poets and writers of popular fiction, put forward rational arguments for the Resurrection, and were called courageous. Today, any lay apologist for Christianity... whose works are sold and read, is liable to be abused in no uncertain terms as a mountebank, a reactionary, a tool of the Inquisition, a spiritual snob, an intellectual bully, an escapist, an obstructionist, a psychopathic introvert, an insensitive extrovert, and an enemy of society. The charges are not always mutually compatible, but the common animus behind them is unmistakable, and its name is fear. Writers who attack these domineering Christians are called courageous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62617]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let something that doesn't matter cause you to lose something that does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let something that doesn't matter cause you to lose something that does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/863]]></link><description><![CDATA[One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God helps him who strives hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19159]]></link><description><![CDATA[God helps him who strives hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play is the beginning of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play is the beginning of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The National Children's Study would follow more than 100,000 children, from before birth -- and, in some cases, even before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The National Children's Study would follow more than 100,000 children, from before birth -- and, in some cases, even before pregnancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In a] natural fear of lowering the Divine dignity of Christ, we often forget His true humanity. We think of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7187]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In a] natural fear of lowering the Divine dignity of Christ, we often forget His true humanity. We think of His earthly life as moving on a plane so different from ours that no parallel can be drawn between them. What we forget is, that He too needed to walk by faith, needed to be filled with the Holy Spirit, needed the sympathy of loving friends, needed the strengthening that is gained by private prayer. His strong and beautiful, serene and holy life so fills the eye that we lose sight of His secret intercourse with the Father, out of which came all its beauty, all its power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kind of got after it defensively. We keyed on their turnovers and attacked the hoop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31279]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kind of got after it defensively. We keyed on their turnovers and attacked the hoop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25157</guid></item></channel></rss>