<?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[The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers,  The sparkling eyes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers,  The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments--   The white arms and the raven hair--the braids,    And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace,     An India in itself, yet dazzling not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53141]]></link><description><![CDATA[What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as justice-- in or out of court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23661]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as justice-- in or out of court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very uniqueness of the Resurrection as a historical event always causes problems when we try to describe it, just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very uniqueness of the Resurrection as a historical event always causes problems when we try to describe it, just as it did for the original writers. Nevertheless, the background to the New Testament is one of expectation of resurrection, and only the historical rising-again of Jesus makes sense of the narrative in this context.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would have hoped for there to be a willingness to calm things down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34961]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would have hoped for there to be a willingness to calm things down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will not carry his wealth to the waters of Acheron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50951]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will not carry his wealth to the waters of Acheron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like an onion. Why is life like an onion? Because you peel away layer after layer and when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like an onion. Why is life like an onion? Because you peel away layer after layer and when you come to the end you have nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These two teams match up well. I expected this type of game all the way through. We were just a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31280]]></link><description><![CDATA[These two teams match up well. I expected this type of game all the way through. We were just a couple of possessions away. We just couldn't get that one basket. They hit their free throws at the end, which did it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55396]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance wavers between extreme audacity and extreme shyness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance wavers between extreme audacity and extreme shyness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,  And bear the marks upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,  And bear the marks upon a blushing face,   OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing I can figure out without going into the motor is that it looks like it broke a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing I can figure out without going into the motor is that it looks like it broke a main stud (one of three inside the engine which holds the crankshaft in place), ... From there, somehow it wedged the rod in the cylinder which eventually led to it breaking. As soon as it started, you could tell something was wrong. It was the first time in all my years in racing that I've seen something like this happen to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53504]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is certain when it comes to the ways of women, of that I'm sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is certain when it comes to the ways of women, of that I'm sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46669]]></link><description><![CDATA[A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  What does this desire and this inability of ours proclaim to us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  What does this desire and this inability of ours proclaim to us but that there was once in man a genuine happiness, of which nothing now survives but the mark and the empty outline; and this he vainly tries to fill from everything that lies around him, seeking from things that are not there the help that he does not get from those that are present? Yet they are quite incapable of filling the gap, because this infinite gulf can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object -- that is, God, Himself. He alone is man's veritable good, and since man has deserted Him it is a strange thing that there is nothing in nature that has not been capable of taking His place for man: stars, sky, earth, elements, plants, cabbages, leeks, animals, insects, calves, serpents, fever, plague, war, famine, vices, adultery, incest. And since he has lost the true good, everything can equally appear to him as such -- even his own destruction, though that is so contrary at once to God, to reason, and to nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than any other time in history, mankind faces a cross-roads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12024]]></link><description><![CDATA[More than any other time in history, mankind faces a cross-roads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm so surprised and happy to have won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41385]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm so surprised and happy to have won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17525]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye;  Much sense the starkest madness.   'Tis the majority ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye;  Much sense the starkest madness.   'Tis the majority    In this, as all, prevails     Assent, and you are sane;      Demur,--you're straightway dangerous,       And handled with a chain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61528]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're back to 10 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33481]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're back to 10 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man shall have ears to hear, let him hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48580]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man shall have ears to hear, let him hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would have the kernel must crack the shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50868]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would have the kernel must crack the shell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14775]]></link><description><![CDATA[An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics nothing is contemptible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46955]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics nothing is contemptible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charisma, the celebrity, around John Paul was so strong that, in a way, the religious significance of the event ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charisma, the celebrity, around John Paul was so strong that, in a way, the religious significance of the event sort of fades from view. Benedict is obviously determined that is not going to happen. He's trying very hard to make sure the focus is on the ritual, not the person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65011</guid></item></channel></rss>