<?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[Do not disturb the sleeping dog. [It., Non stuzzicare il can che dorme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not disturb the sleeping dog. [It., Non stuzzicare il can che dorme.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's unbelievable. We're just in shock, as much shock as we were in with Gary Walberg. No one expected this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30280]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's unbelievable. We're just in shock, as much shock as we were in with Gary Walberg. No one expected this to happen. It's just nine months after Gary's passing. (Loudon) had big plans for the department, shared his vision with us. It's been a while since we had a full complement of officers. It's unfortunate. He was a real nice guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Nikkei to go up further, gains need to become more broad-based. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36557]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Nikkei to go up further, gains need to become more broad-based.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41206]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our guards shot the ball pretty well tonight and I think they carried us, with Shawn being out of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our guards shot the ball pretty well tonight and I think they carried us, with Shawn being out of the starting lineup we had other guys step in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most recently Senator Ken Salazar has said he's going to try and see what he can do, ... I talked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most recently Senator Ken Salazar has said he's going to try and see what he can do, ... I talked with one of his staff the other day and I said that if there was any help I could give them, I'd do it in a New York second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would have hoped for there to be a willingness to calm things down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34961]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would have hoped for there to be a willingness to calm things down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This "Know Yourself" is a silly proverb in some ways; To know the man next door is a much more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42388]]></link><description><![CDATA[This "Know Yourself" is a silly proverb in some ways; To know the man next door is a much more useful rule]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel my fingerprints will be in place on the city of Snellville for many years to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel my fingerprints will be in place on the city of Snellville for many years to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61442]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11927]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth will continue. To what degree, we don't know until it's here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth will continue. To what degree, we don't know until it's here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11394]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been expecting this system to weaken for the last few days, but the system has not weakened. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40853]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been expecting this system to weaken for the last few days, but the system has not weakened. I cannot speculate about it because we don't know why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheer up, children, I am all right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheer up, children, I am all right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lent is a time of prayer, but not for gloomy faces. Some people choose to give things up, but that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lent is a time of prayer, but not for gloomy faces. Some people choose to give things up, but that's a matter of personal piety. Many parishioners choose to add something, like prayer or extra worship services, or take on a cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23939]]></link><description><![CDATA[To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow is, ah, whose? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59462]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow is, ah, whose?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will undergo intensive treatment and will be reassessed late next week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34721]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will undergo intensive treatment and will be reassessed late next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet how much less it were to gain, Though thou hast left me free,  The loveliest things that still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet how much less it were to gain, Though thou hast left me free,  The loveliest things that still remain,   Than thus remember thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38829]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took her, like, 7 1/2 hours to get home yesterday, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36131]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took her, like, 7 1/2 hours to get home yesterday,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as they confront ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as they confront the problems of living for Christ in the world, has for generations been taking refuge in an ever more minute study of Christian origins. Theology is less and less about God and God's world, and more and more a department of ancient history, absorbed in minute details of historical and literary criticism. The whole business is wildly out of proportion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62906]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do listen to some of the same music, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30614]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do listen to some of the same music,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43087]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. -Charles Kuralt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 At morn I plucked a rose and give it Thee, A rose of joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 At morn I plucked a rose and give it Thee, A rose of joy and happy love and peace,  A rose with scarce a thorn:  But in the chillness of a second morn My rose bush drooped, and all its gay increase Was but one thorn that wounded me. I plucked the thorn and offered it to Thee, And for my thorn Thou gavest love and peace,  Not joy this mortal morn:  If Thou hast given much treasure for a thorn, Wilt Thou not give me for my rose increase Of gladness, and all sweets to me? My thorny rose, my love and pain, to Thee I offer, and I set my heart in peace,  And rest upon my thorn:  For verily I think to-morrow morn Shall bring me Paradise, my gift's increase, Yea, give Thy very Self to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66426]]></link><description><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Among the demands attributed to Lopez in the gossip pages: a dressing room fitted out with white orchids, white walls, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42490]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Among the demands attributed to Lopez in the gossip pages: a dressing room fitted out with white orchids, white walls, a white sofa and an endless stock of Evian-room-temperature only, thank you. So when Lopez went AWOL in winter 2000, the warnings seemed prophetic.] I lost track of her, ... It was a huge job, and all the meetings were either rescheduled or canceled. I thought, 'This is going to be very difficult.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65109]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not punished for our sins, but by them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65253]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not punished for our sins, but by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64852]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraudsters use current affairs to create legitimacy. The holidays are a great reason to send people email to try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fraudsters use current affairs to create legitimacy. The holidays are a great reason to send people email to try to scam them into giving up their information.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it. [Fr., Un enfant en ouvrant ses yeux doit voir la patrie, et jusqu'a la mort ne voir qu'elle.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25966</guid></item></channel></rss>