<?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[Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59901]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63681]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15934]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, it's better than sitting there watching this tiny mosquito grow larger on your arm. I don't know that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31209]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, it's better than sitting there watching this tiny mosquito grow larger on your arm. I don't know that he gains much by pulling out now. But he definitely stops hemorrhaging of public opinion against this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35856]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than bytheir understandings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than bytheir understandings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64104]]></link><description><![CDATA[She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   Christians in their relationships should be the most human people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   Christians in their relationships should be the most human people you will ever see. This speaks for God in an age of inhumanity and impersonality and facelessness. When people look at us, their reaction should be, "These are human people" -- human, because we know that we differ from the animal, the plant, and the machine; and that personality is native to what has always been [human]. If they cannot look upon us and say, "They are real people", nothing else is enough. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In principle, there are no problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28337]]></link><description><![CDATA[In principle, there are no problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The introverted church is one which puts its own survival before its mission, its own identity above its task, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The introverted church is one which puts its own survival before its mission, its own identity above its task, its internal concerns before its apostolate, its rituals before its ministry. Undue emphasis on the static structure of the Church has led to the disappearance of a significant lay ministry in denominational Protestantism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am deeply saddened and shocked by the death of Gene Pitney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am deeply saddened and shocked by the death of Gene Pitney.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; What's genuine, shall posterity inherit.  [Ger., Was glanzt ist fur den ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47840]]></link><description><![CDATA[What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; What's genuine, shall posterity inherit.  [Ger., Was glanzt ist fur den Augenblick geboren;   Das Aechte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47840</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[If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/249]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is primarily because it is illegal for a lot of the student population. A lot of students are also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31724]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is primarily because it is illegal for a lot of the student population. A lot of students are also practicing high-risk drinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36860]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A white rosebud for a guerdon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A white rosebud for a guerdon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of the Methodist movement, which enabled it to conquer the raw lives of workingmen in industrial England, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of the Methodist movement, which enabled it to conquer the raw lives of workingmen in industrial England, and the raw lives of men and women on the American frontier, was the "class meeting" -- ten members and their leader, meeting regularly for mutual encouragement, rebuke, nurture, and prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away;  Plucking up the weeds of sin,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away;  Plucking up the weeds of sin,   Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz with amazing melodies.. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz with amazing melodies.. Rock my world with the basics.. And make me sing acoustics.. Life is short.. Feel it with music..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17683]]></link><description><![CDATA[He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't notice the top models in the show. You won't be able to recognize them. ... It's about having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35798]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't notice the top models in the show. You won't be able to recognize them. ... It's about having this one concept, this one woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are his father by nature, I by counsel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51758]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are his father by nature, I by counsel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that which the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Tharsus, o'er which I have the government, A city on whom Plenty held full hand,  For Riches strewed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11843]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Tharsus, o'er which I have the government, A city on whom Plenty held full hand,  For Riches strewed herself even in her streets;   Whose towers bore heads so high they kissed the clouds,    And strangers ne'er beheld but wond'red at;     Whose men and dames so jetted and adorned,      Like one another's glass to trim them by;       Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight,        And not so much to feed on as delight;         All poverty was scorned, and pride so great          The name of help grew odious to repeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life,  Coincident, exhibit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life,  Coincident, exhibit lucid proof   That he is honest in the sacred cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are susceptible to heretical teachings because, in one form or another, they nurture and reflect the way that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6292]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are susceptible to heretical teachings because, in one form or another, they nurture and reflect the way that we would have it be, rather than the way God has provided, which is infinitely better for us. As they lead us into the blind alleys of self-indulgence and escape from life, heresies pander to the most unworthy tendencies of the human heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are as amazing as you let yourself be.Let me repeat that.Youareasamazingasyouletyourselfbe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34404]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are as amazing as you let yourself be.Let me repeat that.Youareasamazingasyouletyourselfbe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public conciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1141]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll look forward to what they have to tell them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40392]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll look forward to what they have to tell them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If love and sex are such natural phenomenons how come there are so many books on how to? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If love and sex are such natural phenomenons how come there are so many books on how to?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I am not deficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61223</guid></item></channel></rss>