<?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[Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -and both commonly succeed, and are right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890  One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers, in which idle people indulge themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all make mistakes but one has to move on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37717]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all make mistakes but one has to move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60630]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When I came back from that war I saw that it was wrong. Some people don't like the fact that I stood up to say no, but I did]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain,  And on the summer winds are rolled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain,  And on the summer winds are rolled   Its waves of emerald and gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18552]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Control your emotion or it will control you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Control your emotion or it will control you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle  The disorder of secularism is perhaps nowhere more apparent in our contemporary Church than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle  The disorder of secularism is perhaps nowhere more apparent in our contemporary Church than in the extent to which we have permitted the order of the world to creep into the order of the Church... That it should carry out its mission to the men in the middle classes of capitalist society is doubtless a part of the Church's order; but that the mission should result in the formation of a middle-class church which defends the secular outlook and interests of that class is an evident corruption.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hurt myself today to see if I still feel I focus on the pain the only thing that's real ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20182]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hurt myself today to see if I still feel I focus on the pain the only thing that's real]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michel Angelo! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michel Angelo!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15560]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of fagots, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, if we would only take the burden appointed for each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday's stick over again today, and adding tomorrow's burden to the load, before we are required to bear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two ill meales make the third a glutton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two ill meales make the third a glutton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, in light of recent management changes and Rogers' evolving strategy to better ... control costs and improve cable results, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39016]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, in light of recent management changes and Rogers' evolving strategy to better ... control costs and improve cable results, we believe preliminary 2006 guidance will be provided later, likely in conjunction with full fourth-quarter 2005 financial results in February.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44811]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where annual elections end, there slavery begins]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[fervently denies any formal or informal charges by the FBI or the Department of Justice that he has in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28920]]></link><description><![CDATA[fervently denies any formal or informal charges by the FBI or the Department of Justice that he has in the past supported or currently is supporting terrorism and terrorist activity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few games after Peter Laviolette became the coach, I began to get more ice time, ... Pretty soon, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few games after Peter Laviolette became the coach, I began to get more ice time, ... Pretty soon, I was skating 25-30 minutes a night. I was more than happy to keep doing that. It sure makes a difference when you have the coach's confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till I break my shins against it. -As You Like It. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55643]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till I break my shins against it. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47387]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't bring back the past. It's gone. All you can do is let go, move on, and make better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62904]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't bring back the past. It's gone. All you can do is let go, move on, and make better memories for the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16919]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lives of Israeli citizens will turn to hell very soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lives of Israeli citizens will turn to hell very soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/971]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54919]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.   - Ralph Waldo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55316]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the "terror of the Lord" that causes us to "persuade" others, but it is the love of Christ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7243]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the "terror of the Lord" that causes us to "persuade" others, but it is the love of Christ that constraineth us to live to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2318]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels,   Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends,    And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down,     And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  We have all the reason in the world to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  We have all the reason in the world to believe that the goodness and justice of God is such as to make nothing necessary to be believed by any man which, by the help of due instruction, may not be made sufficiently plain to a common understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20181]]></link><description><![CDATA[True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54128]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That blessed word Mesopotamia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62030]]></link><description><![CDATA[That blessed word Mesopotamia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62030</guid></item></channel></rss>