<?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[Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this.  A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14324]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53743]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul  May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;  While he who walks in love may wander far,  Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one  thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33593]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one  thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom and dad and children who have lost everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fans want electrifying content that allows them to relive the emotional experience they get from live events. Usher is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fans want electrifying content that allows them to relive the emotional experience they get from live events. Usher is the single most electrifying entertainer of his generation and Truth Tour is another example of Best Buy's commitment to use technology to deliver fans the best seat in the house from the convenience of their homes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need to be Catholic to be Catholic anymore. If you dissent, you don't get out. Martin Luther looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5301]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to be Catholic to be Catholic anymore. If you dissent, you don't get out. Martin Luther looks like a prince compared to these people because he knew when it was time to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This proves to the world that Iraqis are writing their own constitution. We want to be sure to write something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36222]]></link><description><![CDATA[This proves to the world that Iraqis are writing their own constitution. We want to be sure to write something that keeps Iraq intact, in land and in people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes like dreary is the want of motive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43254]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes like dreary is the want of motive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secret of getting along -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12358]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secret of getting along -- whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide  Of Severn, Severn to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12641]]></link><description><![CDATA[As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide  Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,   Into main ocean they, this deed accurst,    An emblem yields to friends and enemies     How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified      By truth, shall spread throughout the world dispersed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53610]]></link><description><![CDATA[None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63809]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectual brilliance is no guaranty against being dead wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectual brilliance is no guaranty against being dead wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who Thou art: Jesus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who Thou art: Jesus, the feeble sinner's friend! Nor wilt Thou with the night depart, But stay and love me to the end. Thy mercies never shall remove; Thy nature and Thy name is Love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every madman considers everyone else a madman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every madman considers everyone else a madman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam,  There's a warmth about to glow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59457]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam,  There's a warmth about to glow,   There's a flower about to blow;    There's a midnight blackness changing     Into gray;      Men of thought and men of action,       Clear the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is fit only for the wise but is found mostly in fools ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is fit only for the wise but is found mostly in fools]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtney's students, teachers and other students have signed up to volunteer to work the different shifts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtney's students, teachers and other students have signed up to volunteer to work the different shifts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like going to the Olympics for circus. ... This is such a special opportunity ... with international competition and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30195]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like going to the Olympics for circus. ... This is such a special opportunity ... with international competition and prizes for acts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judges selected Pay By Touch as the winner in this category for bringing an innovative business solution that allows smaller ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judges selected Pay By Touch as the winner in this category for bringing an innovative business solution that allows smaller and mid-sized businesses to compete on equal footing with larger businesses -- as well as for their ability to offer this solution to customers around the world. Pay By Touch is combining its technology expertise with business insight to help their clients innovate on important business issues and realize real efficiencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59947]]></link><description><![CDATA[This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all -- indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one's life. One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9893]]></link><description><![CDATA[A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions;  Yet others of our most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions;  Yet others of our most romantic schemes   Are something more than fictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27999]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46805]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/78]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/78</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32298]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10078]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children, behold the Chimpanzee; He sits on the ancestral tree  From which we sprang in ages gone.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children, behold the Chimpanzee; He sits on the ancestral tree  From which we sprang in ages gone.   I'm glad we sprang: had we held on,    We might, for aught that I can say,     Be horrid Chimpanzees to-day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9507]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65287</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/51513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul and Cody are the only players from the Midwest going to Ohio State next year, so that's pretty great. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paul and Cody are the only players from the Midwest going to Ohio State next year, so that's pretty great. Robby Dodd will be going to a great Division III program, but other than that we're a young group.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51164]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["An't it please your Honour," quoth the Peasant, "This same Desset is not so pleasant:  Give me again my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13252]]></link><description><![CDATA["An't it please your Honour," quoth the Peasant, "This same Desset is not so pleasant:  Give me again my hollow Tree,   A Crust of Bread, and Liberty."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13252</guid></item></channel></rss>