<?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[...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47105]]></link><description><![CDATA[...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46363]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's history being made. More than that, I don't think you can send 140,000 soldiers out there, young guys from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's history being made. More than that, I don't think you can send 140,000 soldiers out there, young guys from Kansas and Alabama and all over the place, and not take some of the same risks that you're asking them to take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have tried at all times to create doubts about the democratic legitimacy of a president who has been elected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30102]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have tried at all times to create doubts about the democratic legitimacy of a president who has been elected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day  How the clicking of its wheel   Wears the hours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day  How the clicking of its wheel   Wears the hours away!    Languidly the Autumn wind     Stirs the forest leaves,      From the field the reapers sing       Binding up their sheaves:        And a proverb haunts my mind         As a spell is cast,          "The mill cannot grind           With the water that is past."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mr. absent, and the house dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mr. absent, and the house dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are obviously delighted that we will be able to extend 'The Sopranos' series beyond its slated 12 episodes, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are obviously delighted that we will be able to extend 'The Sopranos' series beyond its slated 12 episodes, ... We are thrilled that David Chase (the show's creator) felt there are more stories to be told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is thought rare Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know  That what was worn some twenty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is thought rare Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know  That what was worn some twenty years ago   Comes into grace again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough... It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again," to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again," to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike: it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ballot is stronger than bullets. - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ballot is stronger than bullets. - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doing nothing men learn to do evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48805]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doing nothing men learn to do evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no clue where they came from, ... We don't know if someone raised them and let them go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30710]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no clue where they came from, ... We don't know if someone raised them and let them go or they got loose. We just don't know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649  The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649  The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. Christians should seek for inner enlargement till their outward dimension gives no hint of the vastness within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's fascinating that this is a campaign that is being driven by cheap tricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's fascinating that this is a campaign that is being driven by cheap tricks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The relationship is the communication bridge between people. -Alfred Kadushin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The relationship is the communication bridge between people. -Alfred Kadushin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can advise comfortably from a safe port. [Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/789]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can advise comfortably from a safe port. [Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning  Make the prize light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51491]]></link><description><![CDATA[But this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning  Make the prize light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nineties style isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nineties style isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of prayer. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of prayer. Prayer and devotion are united as soul and body are united, as life and the heart are united. There is no real prayer without devotion, no devotion without prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And heaven had wanted one immortal song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57214]]></link><description><![CDATA[And heaven had wanted one immortal song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good conscience is a continued Christmas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9827]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good conscience is a continued Christmas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My guess is that the U.S. will say we are doing what we can. The Saudis will say please do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38952]]></link><description><![CDATA[My guess is that the U.S. will say we are doing what we can. The Saudis will say please do more and there will be an agreement to work together to do a little bit more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamond cuts diamond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamond cuts diamond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12054]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are the best of the best good temperament, good medical background, good size. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36427]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are the best of the best good temperament, good medical background, good size.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Supply-and-demand, -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Supply-and-demand, -- alas! For what noble work was there ever yet any audible demand in that poor sense? The man of Macedonia, speaking in vision to the Apostle Paul, "Come over and help us", did not specify what rate of wages he would give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Horse made, and a man to make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49037]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Horse made, and a man to make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46802]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535  Sorrow for sin and sorrow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535  Sorrow for sin and sorrow for suffering are ofttimes so twisted and interwoven in the same person -- yea, in the same sigh and groan -- that sometimes it is impossible for the party himself so to separate and divide them in his own sense and feeling, as to know which proceeds from the one and which from the other. Only the all-seeing eye of an infinite God is able to discern and distinguish them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time. Everyone who tel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56206]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. [Lat., Si calceum induisses, tum demum sentires qua parte te urgeret.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very amateurish attempt to shoe-horn Sinn Fein into a position on policing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35689]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very amateurish attempt to shoe-horn Sinn Fein into a position on policing,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft. She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts. They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/978]]></link><description><![CDATA[One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36190</guid></item></channel></rss>