<?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[Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a bulldog goes after a cat - with every fiber in him tense with eagerness and determination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is what works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is what works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever beenaccomplished without enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21948]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever beenaccomplished without enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts with the prominent display required for sexual allurement. This end is far more effectively attained, with greater advantage and less disadvantage, by concentrating the chief ensigns of sexual attractiveness on the upper and more conspicuous parts of the body. This method is well-nigh universal among animals as well as in man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58677]]></link><description><![CDATA[To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it waspromptly drummed out of us in first grade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21460]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it waspromptly drummed out of us in first grade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21460</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[I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the league's new dress code, ... Iverson and other NBA players have suggested that they will not abide by the league's dress code, and Bodog.com will offer to reimburse any fines levied, and match the payment with a donation to each player's charity of choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48444]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was big. That really gave us a cushion. If you have just a one-run game, it changes the whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35538]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was big. That really gave us a cushion. If you have just a one-run game, it changes the whole game. It changes the strategy for both teams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23342]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet at the resurrection we shall see A fair edition, and of matchless worth,  Free from erratas, new in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet at the resurrection we shall see A fair edition, and of matchless worth,  Free from erratas, new in heaven set forth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and desperately require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller;  And in the calling, let him nothing call,   But coach! coach! coach! O for a coach, ye gods!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gnomes - Very small creatures that live in holes in gardens. They have leathery skin and large bald heads. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gnomes - Very small creatures that live in holes in gardens. They have leathery skin and large bald heads. To de-gnome a garden, grab the gnome by the ankles and swing it around your head, and then throw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;  To carry nature lengths unknown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;  To carry nature lengths unknown before,   To give a Milton birth, asked ages more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14179]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Beginning a series on the church:  The laity... living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Beginning a series on the church:  The laity... living in the world as an integral part of it, is the primary body through which the reality of the phrase "the Church is service" has to be manifested in all spheres of secular life: the Church has to show in her own life and attitude towards others the evidences of the redemptive order which is in Christ an operative fact: Christ the Lord is also Christ the servant: the Church which is the lord of all life is also the servant of all life, and the lordship is shown only through the service. The world wants to see redemption: it is not interested in being talked to about it. A church which is not outward looking... has ceased to be a church as the Body of Christ and has instead become a club for the benefit of its members.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not seeking 100 percent consensus -- the most important thing is that the people of Iraq accept (the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37414]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not seeking 100 percent consensus -- the most important thing is that the people of Iraq accept (the constitution) in a referendum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As leopard feels at home with leopard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48542]]></link><description><![CDATA[As leopard feels at home with leopard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61014]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18105]]></link><description><![CDATA[How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Junior Blind Olympics provides an inspirational opportunity for blind and visually impaired children to challenge their abilities, surmount sight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37447]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Junior Blind Olympics provides an inspirational opportunity for blind and visually impaired children to challenge their abilities, surmount sight barriers and achieve their dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As abeing of power, intelligence, and love, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As abeing of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts,he holds the key to every situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56922]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18437]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duncan will be touching down in Cape Town, and getting straight back on the next available flight. He will definitely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duncan will be touching down in Cape Town, and getting straight back on the next available flight. He will definitely be back in India for the next one-day international.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   We sometimes come to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   We sometimes come to God, not because we love Him best, but because we love our possessions best; we ask Christ to "save Western civilization", without asking ourselves whether it is entirely a civilization that Christ could want to save. We pray, too often, not to do God's will, but to enlist God's assistance in maintaining our "continually increasing consumption". And yet, though Christ promised that God would feed us, he never promised that God would stuff us to bursting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery--psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52187]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery--psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we played bad. They just hit the ball (well). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we played bad. They just hit the ball (well).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34265</guid></item></channel></rss>