<?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[Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dollar Diplomacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dollar Diplomacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will play the swan, And die in music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will play the swan, And die in music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8915]]></link><description><![CDATA[If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She sets an example in practice with her hard work, and just getting herself prepared every time she plays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34439]]></link><description><![CDATA[She sets an example in practice with her hard work, and just getting herself prepared every time she plays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first king was a successful soldier; He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors.  [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first king was a successful soldier; He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors.  [Fr., Le premier qui fut roi, fut un soldat heureux;   Qui sert bien son pays, n'a pas besoin d'aleux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27661]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a lot better defensively, and we played a faster-paced game like we're used to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29051]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a lot better defensively, and we played a faster-paced game like we're used to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64348]]></link><description><![CDATA[For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12057]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks  Invisible, except to God alone,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20228]]></link><description><![CDATA[For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks  Invisible, except to God alone,   By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failing to plan is planning to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failing to plan is planning to fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is not just about two loving and committed people. Marriage is a social institution that provides a social good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is not just about two loving and committed people. Marriage is a social institution that provides a social good, and a public good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66399]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540   Visit, I beseech thee, O Lord, this habitation with thy mercy, and me with thy grace and salvation. Let thy holy angels pitch their tents round about and dwell here, that no illusion of the night may abuse me, the spirits of darkness may not come near to hurt me, no evil or sad accident oppress me; and let the eternal Spirit of the Father dwell in my soul and body, filling every corner of my heart with light and grace. Let no deed of darkness overtake me; and let thy blessing, most blessed God, be upon me for ever, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail! Thou as victor crowned. [Ger., Heil dir im Siegerkranz.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail! Thou as victor crowned. [Ger., Heil dir im Siegerkranz.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first, we're learning for ourselves, ... We're looking for things that we'll work on for the classroom. We're piggybacking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39460]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first, we're learning for ourselves, ... We're looking for things that we'll work on for the classroom. We're piggybacking on what other people have already done, and then we will serve as a resource to other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little from her hand,   Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,    And with a silk thread plucks it back again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici,  Occasionem de die.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici,  Occasionem de die.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5302]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night,  From his watch-tower in the skies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24096]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night,  From his watch-tower in the skies,   Till the dappled dawn doth rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11531]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you? [Fr., Vous le croyez votre dupe: s'il feint de l'etre, qui est plus dupe, de lui ou de vous?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear Has grown familiar with your song;  I hear it in the opening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear Has grown familiar with your song;  I hear it in the opening year,   I listen, and it cheers me long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves him?Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. - Ae Fond Kiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the biggest motivator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the biggest motivator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slack, therefore, I am... doing nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56539]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slack, therefore, I am... doing nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. [The more the merrier.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27410]]></link><description><![CDATA[And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. [The more the merrier.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.  Think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4855]]></link><description><![CDATA[O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.  Think each one of this children and his wife,   His home, his parents, living yet and dead.    For them, the absent ones, I supplicate,     And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A one hundred yard high tower still has its foundation on the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62822]]></link><description><![CDATA[A one hundred yard high tower still has its foundation on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man makes his own shipwreck. [Lat., Naufragium sibi quisque facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man makes his own shipwreck. [Lat., Naufragium sibi quisque facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of God is the worship He inspires. That religion is strong which in its ritual and its modes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of God is the worship He inspires. That religion is strong which in its ritual and its modes of thought evokes an apprehension of the commanding vision. The worship of God is not a rule of safety: it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, they are taking care of me. Thank God they were there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, they are taking care of me. Thank God they were there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time is always right to do what is right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time is always right to do what is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you must realize is that the kids are always teenagers - but he's an angel, so he's ageless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35104]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you must realize is that the kids are always teenagers - but he's an angel, so he's ageless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15608]]></link><description><![CDATA[An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43367</guid></item></channel></rss>