<?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[It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53869]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Bush is as interested as I am in having the greatest possible number of countries contributing valuably to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39088]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Bush is as interested as I am in having the greatest possible number of countries contributing valuably to the reconstruction of the area, each of us with our own responsibilities. ... I don't think that arrogance is the best companion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22079]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for the Irish Republic. Facing our enemy we must declare an attitude simply. . . . We ask for no mercy and we will make no compromise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28875]]></link><description><![CDATA[All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a mouth of his owne, must not say to another; Blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49345]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a mouth of his owne, must not say to another; Blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43655]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53831]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  And presently repair to Crosby House;   Where--after I have solemnly interred    At Chertsey monast'ry with noble king--     And wet his grave with my repentant tears--      I will with all expedient duty see you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to be closer and have the same goals in mind. I see it starting to happen here. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to be closer and have the same goals in mind. I see it starting to happen here. The atmosphere is different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have-for their usefulness. -Thomas Merton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5605]]></link><description><![CDATA[It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made little, too little of sacraments and priests, because God was so intensely real to him. What should he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17689]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made little, too little of sacraments and priests, because God was so intensely real to him. What should he do with lenses who stood thus full in the torrent of the sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no evil without its compensation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51200]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no evil without its compensation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58100]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mike assumed the role, with a young team, that he had to assume. He was sensational on both ends. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mike assumed the role, with a young team, that he had to assume. He was sensational on both ends. I think some of these younger kids will play better Saturday night after getting a taste of playoff action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25130]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something given that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something given that way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11066]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  It must have been a most blessed discovery, that of an old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  It must have been a most blessed discovery, that of an old Latin Bible which he found in the Erfurt Library about this time. He had never seen the Book before. It taught him another lesson than that of fasts and vigils... Luther learned now that a man was saved not by singing masses, but by the infinite grace of God: a more credible hypothesis. He gradually got himself founded, as on the rock. No wonder he should venerate the Bible, which had brought this blessed help to him. He prized it as the Word of the Highest must be prized by such a man. He determined to hold by that, as through life and to death he firmly did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small. [Fr., J'avais vu les grands, mais je n'avais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small. [Fr., J'avais vu les grands, mais je n'avais pas vu les petits.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started out slow with our defensive pressure, but we were creating a lot of turnovers, and we shut them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41981]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started out slow with our defensive pressure, but we were creating a lot of turnovers, and we shut them down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is the best possible cure for dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is the best possible cure for dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59640]]></link><description><![CDATA[This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investment itself has evolved, and we try to evolve with it. It's different than it was 20 years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investment itself has evolved, and we try to evolve with it. It's different than it was 20 years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29752]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains;  A graver fact, enlisted on your side, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57914]]></link><description><![CDATA[A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains;  A graver fact, enlisted on your side,   May furnish illustration, well applied;    But sedentary weavers of long tales     Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Polar Express , ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31619]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Polar Express ,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an escalation that we have been expecting, ... The government of Iraq is determined to confront the enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36811]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an escalation that we have been expecting, ... The government of Iraq is determined to confront the enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27494]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20081]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. 'Hear that?' you say, 'That's dynamite, baby.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to my lips more for thy sake than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to my lips more for thy sake than for drinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a back-and-forth, close game all the way. It was one of those games where we were kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31951]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a back-and-forth, close game all the way. It was one of those games where we were kind of out of sync at times, but we definitely executed when the game was on the line; all eight players contributed to the win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing people need to know is that they do not have to make any changes if they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing people need to know is that they do not have to make any changes if they are happy with their health care plan today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33616</guid></item></channel></rss>