<?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[Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages:  For no one cares for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages:  For no one cares for matrimonial cooings.   There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.    Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,     He would have written sonnets all his life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even lessthan you settled for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even lessthan you settled for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your laugh is of the sardonic kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your laugh is of the sardonic kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mile is two in winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mile is two in winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on education:   It is ironic that, although fundamentalists are implacably opposed to liberalism, their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on education:   It is ironic that, although fundamentalists are implacably opposed to liberalism, their extreme reaction shows the same weakness. They, too, stress the leap of faith and make irrationality almost a principle, dismissing the serious questions of seeking modern men as intellectual smoke-screens or diversions to conceal deeper personal problems. All this masks a desperate intellectual insecurity, barely disguised by the surrounding hedge of taboos to preserve purity. The strident intolerance of much guilt-driven evangelism betrays the same insecurity. In these circles, much that is taught has to be unlearned in the wider school of life, and it is not surprising that universities are littered with dropouts from such groups. Their non-rational, subjective faith is cruelly punctured by varsity-level questions, and many manage to survive only by resorting to a severely schizophrenic faith which they hold to be true religiously but not intellectually, historically, or scientifically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, oh! the love that gold must crown! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50157]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, oh! the love that gold must crown!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58805]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is very good right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is very good right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We definitely don't believe that this was an accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36652]]></link><description><![CDATA[We definitely don't believe that this was an accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44226]]></link><description><![CDATA[People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food,  Nothing to wear out but clothes,   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food,  Nothing to wear out but clothes,   To keep one from going nude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. [It., Sta come torre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. [It., Sta come torre ferme, che non crolla  Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A precious pair of brothers [i.e., rascals]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48549]]></link><description><![CDATA[A precious pair of brothers [i.e., rascals].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1446]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why;  It is the one great woe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25618]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why;  It is the one great woe of life   To feel all feeling die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a confused heap of facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19449]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a confused heap of facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ruling eliminates the risk of a large-scale financial verdict, should increase the market's visibility of Philip Morris' long-term U.S. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ruling eliminates the risk of a large-scale financial verdict, should increase the market's visibility of Philip Morris' long-term U.S. tobacco market share and profit growth, and avoids press coverage of the industry airing its internal issues in public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I also have this incredible love for women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40043]]></link><description><![CDATA[I also have this incredible love for women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You change your life by changing your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5502]]></link><description><![CDATA[You change your life by changing your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am determined to see the job through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am determined to see the job through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are moments when you have to just walk away and cry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12384]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are moments when you have to just walk away and cry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prime Minister Ariel Sharon until now has not shown any readiness to sit together with the Palestinians to discuss all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Ariel Sharon until now has not shown any readiness to sit together with the Palestinians to discuss all the outstanding issues,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a fishermen need there be If fishes could hear as well as see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a fishermen need there be If fishes could hear as well as see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27246]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth. - My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46257]]></link><description><![CDATA[To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth. - My Friends the Senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got a team. The thing that they had to get down from the start is to accept their roles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37386]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got a team. The thing that they had to get down from the start is to accept their roles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being happy with someone doesn't mean that everything about them is perfect, they can't be. It means that we know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being happy with someone doesn't mean that everything about them is perfect, they can't be. It means that we know no one is perfect including ourselves so we look beyond someones imperfections and concentrate on their perfections and our happiest shines thru. As long as one's HEART is in the right place and is perfect for your liking then everything else that is near perfect or perfect about them is a bonus and everything else....secondary, they don't matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice when it gets down to one team. People start talking about it, ... It's a time period when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33654]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice when it gets down to one team. People start talking about it, ... It's a time period when we're talked about and then not again until the next year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe anything is possible.Research into quantum physicsproves that a system changessimply by someone observing it.Therefore, all you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31802]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe anything is possible.Research into quantum physicsproves that a system changessimply by someone observing it.Therefore, all you have to do is beawake and aware of your environment,and that enables you totransform everything around you.It sounds like hocus pocus, butscientists are coming to realize thatjust thinking about something canmake it happen. Turns out maybefaith can move mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51513]]></link><description><![CDATA[When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredlythe idea, buried deep in our subconscious, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredlythe idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the pathto its fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46109]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978 Commemoration of John ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978 Commemoration of John XXIII, Bishop of Rome, Inspirer of Renewal, 1963  The Gospel leaves men, unless upon extraordinary occasions, their names, their reputations, their wealth and honors, if lawfully obtained and possessed; but the league that is between the mind and these things in all natural men must be broken. They must be no longer looked upon as the chiefest good or in the place thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21927</guid></item></channel></rss>