<?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[As a parent, I would appreciate any information about my child that I thought was going to be helpful to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38683]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a parent, I would appreciate any information about my child that I thought was going to be helpful to ensure my child was healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38683</guid></item><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[How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21685]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269   The offertory is the first essential action of the Liturgy, because in it we make the costly and solemn oblation, under tokens, of our very selves and all our substance, that they may be transformed, quickened, and devoted to the interests of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See how the mountain goat hangs from the summit of the cliff; you would expect it to fall; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14077]]></link><description><![CDATA[See how the mountain goat hangs from the summit of the cliff; you would expect it to fall; it is merely showing its contempt for the dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FIRE HAS LEFT THE HEARTH Fire has left the hearth Nautilus climbed from shell Perfume flowed from bottle Prisoner gone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18359]]></link><description><![CDATA[FIRE HAS LEFT THE HEARTH Fire has left the hearth Nautilus climbed from shell Perfume flowed from bottle Prisoner gone from cell Butterfly flutterbied cocoon nor hand restrained by glove Jesus away from manger Cage left by Spirit Dove. Sparklings soared away from wand. Chick's egg become the bird. Omkar sung from out the throat Violin's notes now heard. Buddhist temple pine cone tabernacle'd godlet seed Shattered that it might manifest thousand forests of fir tree Eternal snow of mountain top now nurses meadow flowers. Shining never held by sun relentless melts ice towers. Love has left its spring the heart Is now a liquid pond Host stolen from the chalice consumed in mouth of God Starlight abandoned star a billion years ago Left that tonight you might have its sight and know Know Love is forever no drop of God ever dies Lover not bound by form of love God's bodies are not God's souls (to his wife and children on the death of Robert S) (Baba Hari Das: is the author of love is more powerful than lover for love is not bound by form).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19239]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is onely bright that shines by himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49318]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17868]]></link><description><![CDATA[The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will be beloved when he is no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50253]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will be beloved when he is no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman Which gives the stern'st good-night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman Which gives the stern'st good-night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vine and the GoatA vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A Goat, passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vine and the GoatA vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves. The Vine addressed him and said: Why do you thus injure me without a cause, and crop my leaves? Is there no young grass left? But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for if you now should crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in the midst of it without worldly tempers, who comply with their share in the offices of human life without complying with the spirit that reigneth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56074</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[There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63251]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy to maintain, but ultimately toxic. Other tool is passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42564]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's not like you can just rest on your laurels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24516]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body, Jenny's like to cry;  For she hes weet her petticoats   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body, Jenny's like to cry;  For she hes weet her petticoats   In gangin' thro' the rye,    Peer body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14753]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4237]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why was I born with such contemporaries? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why was I born with such contemporaries?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't forget I know who you are. We were cut from the same surly star. Like two jewels in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't forget I know who you are. We were cut from the same surly star. Like two jewels in the sky sharing fire!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Jeremy Taylor gives us some fundamental rules for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Jeremy Taylor gives us some fundamental rules for prayer. And the chief of them is this: "Do not lie to God." And that curt piece of advice, so bluntly thrown down for us, is indeed all-important. Do not burn false fire upon God's altar; do not pose and pretend, either to Him or to yourself, in your religious exercises; do not say more than you mean, or use exagerated language that goes beyond the facts, when speaking to Him whose word is truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll get some and take some home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll get some and take some home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're getting a little out of hand, a little ridiculous. I still like a couple of them, but it gets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29454]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're getting a little out of hand, a little ridiculous. I still like a couple of them, but it gets old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53386]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24185]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe  As left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15506]]></link><description><![CDATA[His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe  As left him not, till penitence had won   Lost favor back again, and clos'd the breach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's all about wearing horizontal stripes in the right way. I think it's a reality that bigger horizontal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's all about wearing horizontal stripes in the right way. I think it's a reality that bigger horizontal stripes don't flatter bigger body types. I think that thinner stripes are certainly more flattering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9892</guid></item></channel></rss>