<?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[We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11747]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who heeds not experience, trust him not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who heeds not experience, trust him not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray the prayer the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with you;  Wherever you stay, wherever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray the prayer the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with you;  Wherever you stay, wherever you go,   May the beautiful palms of Allah grow;    Through days of labor, and nights of rest,     The love of Good Allah make you blest;      So I touch my heart--as the Easterners do,       May the peace of Allah abide with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward. - "Mr. Dooley's Opinions", 1900.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust not him that hath once broken faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust not him that hath once broken faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11551]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. and since he is so busy, you'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11713]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thurston has some great shooters, but our defense just got in their face and shut them down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thurston has some great shooters, but our defense just got in their face and shut them down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Latin America is finishing the year on a very strong tone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Latin America is finishing the year on a very strong tone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[held in a free and democratic atmosphere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36706]]></link><description><![CDATA[held in a free and democratic atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31073]]></link><description><![CDATA[You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest of the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12036]]></link><description><![CDATA[It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is tested in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48956]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is tested in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence, but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God, and bear the cost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way,  He greedily sucks in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16113]]></link><description><![CDATA[When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way,  He greedily sucks in the twining bait,   And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat.    Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line!     How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   I shall think it mercy to my soul, if my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   I shall think it mercy to my soul, if my faith shall out-watch all this winter-night, and not nod or slumber, till my Lord's summer-day dawn upon me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23652]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor. [Lat., Observantior aequi  Fit populus, nec ferre negat, cum viderit ipsum   Auctorem parere sibi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15107]]></link><description><![CDATA[All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power. [It., La vostra nominanza e color d'erba,  Che viene e va; e quei la discolora   Per cui ell' esce della terra acerba.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10224]]></link><description><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country be left to honest European guidance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country be left to honest European guidance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29546]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13580]]></link><description><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question: How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44191]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/963]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assumptions are the termites of relationships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23311]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing impossible to him who will try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63300]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing impossible to him who will try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61882]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Gay panic' is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding and disregarding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53996]]></link><description><![CDATA['Gay panic' is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding and disregarding gay lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11311]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of so knowing Christ that they have Him in them saving them, they lie wasting themselves in soul-sickening self-examination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of so knowing Christ that they have Him in them saving them, they lie wasting themselves in soul-sickening self-examination as to whether they are believers, whether they are really trusting in the Atonement, whether they are truly sorry for their sins -- the way to madness of the brain and despair of the heart... Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or once abstained because He said, Do not do it! It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See and to be seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56254]]></link><description><![CDATA[See and to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love fools experiments. I am always making them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love fools experiments. I am always making them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never had ill workeman good tooles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never had ill workeman good tooles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're seeing that as a way to reduce their costs in some places. Some might think employers are taking a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39799]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're seeing that as a way to reduce their costs in some places. Some might think employers are taking a Scrooge mentality, but they're putting it into a different form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55990]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign of bliss and joy! -King Henry VI. Part III. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when students graduate from universities, they are not able to fill the intellectual positions that need to be filled. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when students graduate from universities, they are not able to fill the intellectual positions that need to be filled. They are not capable of generating new ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea,  A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea,  A host in the sunshine, an army in June,   The people God sends us to set our heart free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7542</guid></item></channel></rss>