<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I think we came into this situation ? a hostile environment ? and it allowed our team to really focus, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32356]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we came into this situation ? a hostile environment ? and it allowed our team to really focus,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring in great logs and let them lie To make a solid core of heat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring in great logs and let them lie To make a solid core of heat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35545]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56954]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stock market might be a variable, but I think it's totally trumped by other factors right now, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stock market might be a variable, but I think it's totally trumped by other factors right now,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20792]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57369]]></link><description><![CDATA[They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shakes his ambroisal curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shakes his ambroisal curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63774]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America was targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60273]]></link><description><![CDATA[America was targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from shining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60273</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/2156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taste is the feminine of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taste is the feminine of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At no time was I involved with any negotiations or lobbying of the United Nations with regard to the oil-for-food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40217]]></link><description><![CDATA[At no time was I involved with any negotiations or lobbying of the United Nations with regard to the oil-for-food program inspection contract. I and others have stated this fact repeatedly. I am not aware of anyone who states otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They wanted to get it out to all the appropriate agencies and individuals having to do with disaster preparedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40560]]></link><description><![CDATA[They wanted to get it out to all the appropriate agencies and individuals having to do with disaster preparedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Continuing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Continuing a short series on prayer:  Even if all the things that people prayed for happened -- which they do not -- this would not prove what Christians mean by the efficacy of prayer. For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them. Invariable "success" in prayer would not prove the Christian doctrine at all. It would prove something more like magic -- a power in certain human beings to control, or compel, the course of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64318]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52748]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a question]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13162]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though "the commandments of God be not grievous", yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[St. Paul] always contrived to bring his hearers to a point. There was none of the indeterminate, inconclusive talking which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7973]]></link><description><![CDATA[[St. Paul] always contrived to bring his hearers to a point. There was none of the indeterminate, inconclusive talking which we are apt to describe as "sowing the seed". Our idea of sowing the seed seems to be rather like scattering wheat out of a balloon... Occasionally, of course, grains of wheat scattered out of a balloon will fall upon ploughed and fertile land and will spring up and bear fruit; but it is a casual method of sowing. Paul did not scatter seeds, he planted. He so dealt with his hearers that he brought them speedily and directly to a point of decision, and then he demanded of them that they should make a choice and act on their choice. In this way he kept the moral issue clearly before them, and made them realize that his preaching was not merely a novel and interesting doctrine, but a life. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They inspected the shell casings and determined they were empty. They said it would be safe to remove the remaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38695]]></link><description><![CDATA[They inspected the shell casings and determined they were empty. They said it would be safe to remove the remaining slabs. They came back today with a crew from the Crane Naval Depot and determined they were empty and harmless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65693]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No language is rude that can boast polite writers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24075]]></link><description><![CDATA[No language is rude that can boast polite writers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been no signs of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36634]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been no signs of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55081]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Cause I's wicked,--I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61544]]></link><description><![CDATA['Cause I's wicked,--I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46553]]></link><description><![CDATA[When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60224]]></link><description><![CDATA[My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43713]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was kind of bare when we first came here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41545]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was kind of bare when we first came here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is our business. It is what we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our business. It is what we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40785</guid></item></channel></rss>