<?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[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/6981]]></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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Delay did bugs exterminatebefore he did kid soldiers terminate.Kissinger's Bremer has not been forthrightabout how many died in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom Delay did bugs exterminatebefore he did kid soldiers terminate.Kissinger's Bremer has not been forthrightabout how many died in the last fortnight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So still we glide down to the sea Of fathomless eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51100]]></link><description><![CDATA[So still we glide down to the sea Of fathomless eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than by the arguments of its opponents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than by the arguments of its opponents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our programs don't require radical change. Our programs require just enhancement and tuning and trying to get better yields on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our programs don't require radical change. Our programs require just enhancement and tuning and trying to get better yields on the investments that we and our partners have made. A great example is the fact that we now have 100 business partner innovation centers around the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you fold your hands, Baby Louise! Your hands like a fairy's, so tiny and fair,  With a pretty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3633]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you fold your hands, Baby Louise! Your hands like a fairy's, so tiny and fair,  With a pretty, innocent, saintlike air,   Are you trying to think of some angel-taught prayer    You learned above, Baby Louise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many bodies in front of the net. There took a little bit more liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32954]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many bodies in front of the net. There took a little bit more liberties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think education is expensive, try ignorance! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13410]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something is the right thing for you to dosome will call your action 'courage.'There is a good possibility you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34406]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something is the right thing for you to dosome will call your action 'courage.'There is a good possibility you will likely call it'being myself.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They wanted a big splash today. And they got it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37052]]></link><description><![CDATA[They wanted a big splash today. And they got it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We praise old times, but show no curiosity about modern events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We praise old times, but show no curiosity about modern events.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the weight of jewel or plate, Or the fondle of silk or fur;  "Tis the spirit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17433]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the weight of jewel or plate, Or the fondle of silk or fur;  "Tis the spirit in which the gift is rich,   As the gifts of the Wise Ones were,    And we are not told whose gift was gold,     Or whose was the gift of myrrh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My poverty, but not my will consents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51481]]></link><description><![CDATA[My poverty, but not my will consents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18169]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5325]]></link><description><![CDATA[As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a coach, you hate to see your kids in pain and suffering a little bit. So I was just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30884]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a coach, you hate to see your kids in pain and suffering a little bit. So I was just trying to encourage him and talk to him about what he learned and some of the positives that should have been gained here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the illustrious Homer. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the illustrious Homer. [Lat., Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenae,  Hae septem certant de stirpe insignis Homeri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17703]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do me wrong who say I come no more, When once I know and fail to find you in; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45079]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do me wrong who say I come no more, When once I know and fail to find you in;  For every day I stand outside your door   And bid you wait, and rise to fight and win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51517]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would bee at ease, all the world is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies very ridiculous!" God has granted it to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13497]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2423]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a service, and it saved us time and money. We don't gain (anything). We gained games. The red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32363]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a service, and it saved us time and money. We don't gain (anything). We gained games. The red flag is not with Iowa State. Iowa State just happened to be the only ones mentioned in the article.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4700]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own. [Fr., Les abeilles pillotent deca dela les fleurs; mais elles en font aprez le miel, qui est tout leur; ce n'est plus thym, ny marjolaine: ainsi les pieces empruntees d'aultruy, il les transformera et confondra pour en faire un ouvrage tout sien.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I die,--but first I have possess'd, And come what may, I have been bless'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I die,--but first I have possess'd, And come what may, I have been bless'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64240]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No fool can be silent at a feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25541]]></link><description><![CDATA[No fool can be silent at a feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence Budinton Kelland. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45501]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence Budinton Kelland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38554]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48045]]></link><description><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  A gauntlet with a gift in 't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was just such a funny guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29477]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was just such a funny guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29477</guid></item></channel></rss>