<?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[Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51812]]></link><description><![CDATA[In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are cheels that winna ding, An' downs be disputed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are cheels that winna ding, An' downs be disputed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not judge the people we love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23484]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not judge the people we love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawn to the dregs of a democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawn to the dregs of a democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61778]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not the way we operate here at NASA. We promote openness and we speak with the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33295]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not the way we operate here at NASA. We promote openness and we speak with the facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54245]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52024]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to DisneyLand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11726]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to DisneyLand, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said, "DisneyLand burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real DisneyLand, but it was getting pretty late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6107]]></link><description><![CDATA[As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important that those who read this book should not try to take an indecent advantage of Catholic self-criticism. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6877]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important that those who read this book should not try to take an indecent advantage of Catholic self-criticism. When we are willing to bring some honest criticism to our own positions, the lumbering Institution will become a Movement again, and we shall rediscover the Pilgrim Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men who make history have not time to write it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men who make history have not time to write it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta  Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54088]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta  Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11422]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65603]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By printing cases on-line, these printers provide a dependable means to substantially reduce packaging operating costs by eliminating the need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33024]]></link><description><![CDATA[By printing cases on-line, these printers provide a dependable means to substantially reduce packaging operating costs by eliminating the need for preprinted cases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16047]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more fools the more one laughs. [Fr., Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more fools the more one laughs. [Fr., Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secret dans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54980]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secret dans l'amitie, mais il echappe dans l'amour.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better not to be at all Than not to be noble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, the great ocean hath no tone of power Mightier to reach the soul, in thought's hushed hour,  Than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, the great ocean hath no tone of power Mightier to reach the soul, in thought's hushed hour,  Than yours, ye Lilies! chosen thus and graced!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat others as thou wouldn't be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat others as thou wouldn't be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is no struggle there is no progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is no struggle there is no progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the force and road of casualty. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the force and road of casualty. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27949]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence and what are thou, execrable shape? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you masterthe old rule, you are then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21483]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you masterthe old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense  Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense  Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,   Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary    And pitch our evils there?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes:  For who so firm that cannot be seduced? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51282]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes:  For who so firm that cannot be seduced?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. -The Taming of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55703]]></link><description><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada's official languages program is arguably the most successful affirmative action program in history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canada's official languages program is arguably the most successful affirmative action program in history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932  Do we habitually remember how it offends our Lord to see divisions in the Christian Church, nations nominally Christian armed to the teeth against one another, class against class and individual against individual in fierce and relentless competition, jealousies among clergy and church-workers, communicants who forget that the sacrament of union with Christ is the sacrament of union with their fellow men? Christians are to be the makers of Christ's peace. Something we can all do is to reconcile individuals, families, classes, churches, nations. The question is, Are we, as churchmen and citizens, by work and by prayer, in our private conduct and our public action, doing our utmost with deliberate, unsparing effort! If so, our benediction is of the highest: it is to be, and to be acknowledged as being, sons of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let deeds match words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let deeds match words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by-pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by-pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has strangled His language in his tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24014]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has strangled His language in his tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We noticed that. But we've got to take care of this game (George Mason) first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42258]]></link><description><![CDATA[We noticed that. But we've got to take care of this game (George Mason) first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42258</guid></item></channel></rss>