<?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[I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An HOV enforcement right in the middle of the HOV lanes is just asking for a backup. Enforcement is good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31704]]></link><description><![CDATA[An HOV enforcement right in the middle of the HOV lanes is just asking for a backup. Enforcement is good, but the way they enforced it this morning, I'm not sure the benefits outweighed the costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hurts a lot. As much as it's a tradition for football, we try to take it along with us. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42140]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hurts a lot. As much as it's a tradition for football, we try to take it along with us. We don't want to get beat by Michigan any time. To go up there and play like that just hurts a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes down to it, water, sewer, roads and rail is what you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37364]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes down to it, water, sewer, roads and rail is what you need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24694]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55215]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;  And through the blue heavens above us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;  And through the blue heavens above us   The very clouds move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot have the success without the failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15751]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot have the success without the failures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26829]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62184]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52927]]></link><description><![CDATA[A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17348]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4425]]></link><description><![CDATA[An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9089]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year I had them play doubles at tournaments, (and during conference matches) I put them at one and two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year I had them play doubles at tournaments, (and during conference matches) I put them at one and two singles. That was the best way to get success, I put our four best kids in the top four spots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941  What is said in the passage [James 2:14 ff.] is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941  What is said in the passage [James 2:14 ff.] is like a two coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached" and the other says, "Not good for passage". Works are not good for passage; but faith detached from works is not saving faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They need to be permanent employees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40089]]></link><description><![CDATA[They need to be permanent employees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had reports from farmers that they had seen baby snakes and their mothers out together and I thought, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had reports from farmers that they had seen baby snakes and their mothers out together and I thought, this is crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, truly, 'tis more than manners will; And I have heard it said, unbidden guests  Are often welcomest when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18431]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, truly, 'tis more than manners will; And I have heard it said, unbidden guests  Are often welcomest when they are gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts unter der Sonne ist Zufall--am wenigsten das wovon die Absicht so klar in die Augen leuchtet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every country is going to watch their players, and they are going to see how much pride they have playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every country is going to watch their players, and they are going to see how much pride they have playing for their country. In Mexico, they have two leagues. We're going to try to play hard like all the other teams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs  Of coming mischief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs  Of coming mischief is thy great delight,   Good dost thou ne'er foretell nor bring to pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The newspaper takes so long to read. Plus, it has so much in it that no longer applies to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The newspaper takes so long to read. Plus, it has so much in it that no longer applies to my life. So much trivia. I don't fault them for that ? all of it applies to some people's lives but not mine. I feel that I have better things to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's a jailhouse snitch who stole my client's stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29212]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's a jailhouse snitch who stole my client's stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29212</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/8465]]></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   In the first ages, [catechizing] was a work of long time; months, sometimes years, were devoted to the arduous task of disabusing the mind of the incipient Christian of its pagan errors, and of moulding it upon the Christian faith. The Scriptures indeed were at hand for the study of those who could avail themselves of them, but St. Iranaeus does not hesitate to speak of whole races who had been converted to Christianity, without being able to read them. To be unable to read or write was in those times no evidence of want of learning; the hermits of the deserts were, in one sense of the word, illiterate, yet the great St. Anthony, though he knew not letters, was a match in disputation for the learned philosophers who came to try him.  ... John Henry Newman, "What is a University?" August 12, 2000   Any single verse of the Bible, taken in isolation, may actually be dangerous to your spiritual health. Every part of it must be read in relation to the whole message.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We also saw birds or prey, went through the animal hospital, and kids were able to ask a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30510]]></link><description><![CDATA[We also saw birds or prey, went through the animal hospital, and kids were able to ask a lot of questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2843]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11201]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55099]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4309]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all to acquire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without Mr. Sullivan's cooperation, it is likely that Ebbers would never have been brought to justice. I think it's fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without Mr. Sullivan's cooperation, it is likely that Ebbers would never have been brought to justice. I think it's fair to describe his efforts as exceptional.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chiefs contend only for their place of burial. [Lat., Ducibus tantum de funere pugna est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chiefs contend only for their place of burial. [Lat., Ducibus tantum de funere pugna est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Islamic Republic is ready to play an effective role in removing misunderstandings among certain regional countries and in helping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Islamic Republic is ready to play an effective role in removing misunderstandings among certain regional countries and in helping to start serious and constructive cooperation among them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conception of the Church which we tend to reproduce as the fruit of our missionary work is so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7326]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conception of the Church which we tend to reproduce as the fruit of our missionary work is so much a replica of our own, so much that of a fundamentally settled body existing for the sake of its own members rather than that of a body of strangers and pilgrims, the sign and instrument of a supernatural and universal salvation to be revealed, that our missionary advance tends to follow the lines of cultural and political expansion. and to falter when that advance stops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[April can be a violent month. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30688]]></link><description><![CDATA[April can be a violent month.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joking set aside. [Lat., Omissis jocis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joking set aside. [Lat., Omissis jocis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23239</guid></item></channel></rss>