<?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[A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well. [Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13190]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24129]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20038]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children in Iraq are seriously suffering psychologically with all the insecurity, especially with the fear of kidnapping and explosions. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children in Iraq are seriously suffering psychologically with all the insecurity, especially with the fear of kidnapping and explosions. In some cases, they?re found to be suffering extreme stress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13867]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is praised and starves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is praised and starves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This new tunnel entrance is indicative of a new underground facility or the further expansion of the existing one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32997]]></link><description><![CDATA[This new tunnel entrance is indicative of a new underground facility or the further expansion of the existing one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing devised by the enemy. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56025]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing devised by the enemy. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6208]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59167]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23140]]></link><description><![CDATA[All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54241]]></link><description><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56070]]></link><description><![CDATA[And like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're mirror images of each other. It's gonna come down to who makes the least mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33454]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're mirror images of each other. It's gonna come down to who makes the least mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43810]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?  Heav'n still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?  Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,   And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buying on trust is the way to pay double. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buying on trust is the way to pay double.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Sin is not only manifested in certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom -- unaccompanied by any vicious act -- are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407  The surest symbol of a heart not yet fully subdued ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407  The surest symbol of a heart not yet fully subdued to God and His will is going to be found in the areas of money, sex, and power: in wanting these things for ourselves. The surest symbol of spiritual earnestness will be the checkbook, the affections, and the ego-drive surrendered to Him. A disciple must have discipline. He must not be afraid of being asked by God for some of the time, the money, and the pleasure he has been in the habit of calling his "own". This does not mean that there will not be time for the family, and time for some healthy diversion. But it does mean that we are never -- on vacation, or wherever we may be -- exempt from our primary commitment to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-love seems so often unrequited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-love seems so often unrequited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a gentle way, you can shake the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21096]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a gentle way, you can shake the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47913]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why;  A king cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why;  A king cannot swagger, not drink like a beggar,   Nor be half so happy as I.    . . . .     Let the back and side go bare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures;  And, therefore, I, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19133]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures;  And, therefore, I, that was an actress here,   Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good things come to those who wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66039]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good things come to those who wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four;  Stella's wit is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four;  Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face,   She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46789]]></link><description><![CDATA[When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We praise old times, but show no curiosity about modern events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We praise old times, but show no curiosity about modern events.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the spiritual perplexity which exercised so many of the rarest souls of the nineteenth century, God appeared as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8080]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the spiritual perplexity which exercised so many of the rarest souls of the nineteenth century, God appeared as a Being whom men desired to find but could not. But such a formula, though it truly represented one side of their situation, can never represent the whole of any human situation. For God is also a Being whom it ill suits any of us to find but from whom we cannot escape. Part of the reason why men cannot find God is that there is that in Him which they do not desire to find, so that the God whom they are seeking and cannot find is not the God who truly is. Perhaps we could not fail to find God, if it were really God whom we were seeking. And indeed the deepest reality of the situation is that contained in the discovery, which alone is likely at last to resolve our perplexity, that when we were so distressfully seeking that which was not really God, the true God had already found us, though at first we did not know that it was He by whom we had been found. There is a saying, "Be careful what you seek; you might find it." And some who have sought God only as a complacent ally of their own ambitions have found Him a consuming fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51349]]></link><description><![CDATA[With taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51349</guid></item></channel></rss>