<?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[Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26146]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44170]]></link><description><![CDATA[A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quitting for my health was my No. 1 goal. And I started thinking I was blowing money out the window. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quitting for my health was my No. 1 goal. And I started thinking I was blowing money out the window.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19454]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it. [Lat., Virtute enim ipsa non tam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it. [Lat., Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse, quam videri volunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41190]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Assuredly there is but one way in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876   It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet we are not to omit reading the abstruser texts, which have any appearance of relating to us; but should follow the example of the Blessed Virgin, who understood not several of our Saviour's sayings, but kept them all in her heart. Were we only to learn humility thus, it would be enough; but we shall by degrees come to apprehend far more than we expected, if we diligently compare spiritual things to spiritual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. -Malcolm X. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. -Malcolm X.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say that every individual has the right to religious freedom is not to condone religious indifferentism or irresponsibility, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34983]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that every individual has the right to religious freedom is not to condone religious indifferentism or irresponsibility, nor is it to promote the installation of a supermarket of religions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything one thing is impossible: rationality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63607]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a long time in the hot seat (race lead), and I did kind of hope to hold on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a long time in the hot seat (race lead), and I did kind of hope to hold on. But I'm just happy to be up here with Joane and Karin. I look up to both of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48937]]></link><description><![CDATA[In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6060]]></link><description><![CDATA[God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19457]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our concepts for the Hilton are innovative and will be trend-setting in the hospitality industry. We look forward to providing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our concepts for the Hilton are innovative and will be trend-setting in the hospitality industry. We look forward to providing the Hilton property with a unique and recognizable uniform program that will truly set them apart in an increasingly competitive industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose words all ears took captive. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose words all ears took captive. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48590]]></link><description><![CDATA[They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing. -Seng-Ts'an. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12242]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing. -Seng-Ts'an.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64550]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his houl is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7460]]></link><description><![CDATA[By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his houl is laid bare. If he regards Christ with love, even with wistful yearning, for him there is hope; but if in Christ he sees nothing lovely he has condemned himself. He who was sent in love has become to the man, judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Why don't you step out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3659]]></link><description><![CDATA['Why don't you step out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we lost scholarships our staff had to make some difficult personnel decisions. As a result, we have lost retention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we lost scholarships our staff had to make some difficult personnel decisions. As a result, we have lost retention points because student-athletes have transferred when we were not able to renew their aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15179]]></link><description><![CDATA[A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my end is my beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13785]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my end is my beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut  The portals of our earthly destinies; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut  The portals of our earthly destinies;   We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors    Close after us, forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. Just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29795]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. Just as they made rivers of blood flow in our countries, we will make volcanoes of anger erupt in their countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.  [Ger., Ein edler ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44575]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.  [Ger., Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an,   Und weiss sie fest zu halten, wie ihr thut.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the wind is against you then start sailing against it because the wind may never change in your favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45113]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the wind is against you then start sailing against it because the wind may never change in your favor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is of a very melancholy disposition. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55420]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is of a very melancholy disposition. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you know, the less you need to show. -Anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you know, the less you need to show. -Anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like to like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like to like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of JusticeA swallow, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of JusticeA swallow, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds. A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings. The Swallow, finding her nest empty, lamented greatly and exclaimed: Woe to me a stranger! that in this place where all others' rights are protected, I alone should suffer wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1587</guid></item></channel></rss>