<?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[Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, our stomachs Will make what's homely savory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, our stomachs Will make what's homely savory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach,  And, if it can, at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach,  And, if it can, at once both please and preach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4001]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappy France! Unhappy King! [Fr., Malheureuse France! Malheureux roi!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappy France! Unhappy King! [Fr., Malheureuse France! Malheureux roi!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was totally bewildered. It wasn't easy for him. He had the hardest time of the bunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35251]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was totally bewildered. It wasn't easy for him. He had the hardest time of the bunch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13419]]></link><description><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47004]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That no obedience but a perfect one will satisfy God, I hold with all my heart and strength; but that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8113]]></link><description><![CDATA[That no obedience but a perfect one will satisfy God, I hold with all my heart and strength; but that there is none else that He cares for, is one of the lies of the enemy. What father is not pleased with the first tottering attempt of his little one to walk? What father would be satisfied with anything but the manly step of the full-grown son?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the transmission of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the transmission of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born,  Sang with many a change,   Christmas carols until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born,  Sang with many a change,   Christmas carols until morn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59951]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12355]]></link><description><![CDATA[A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hadn't a single redeeming vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60484]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hadn't a single redeeming vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45713]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your voices break and falter in the darkness,-- Break, falter, and are still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your voices break and falter in the darkness,-- Break, falter, and are still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22507]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but the search after truth that he enlarges his power, wherein alone consists his ever-increasing perfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62966]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62486]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We aren't going to go out and support an opponent of the current governor and sully the name of teachers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We aren't going to go out and support an opponent of the current governor and sully the name of teachers before a special session.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274   The end of all my labors has come. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274   The end of all my labors has come. All that I have written appears to me as much straw after the things that have been revealed to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/499]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I think about all the men and women all over the world who have signed up for much longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36787]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think about all the men and women all over the world who have signed up for much longer than two years, this is the least I can do,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66486]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52931]]></link><description><![CDATA[He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He likes the poor things of the world the best, I would not, therefore, if I could be rich.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5140]]></link><description><![CDATA[He likes the poor things of the world the best, I would not, therefore, if I could be rich.  It pleases him t stoop for buttercups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The integrity of the game is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The integrity of the game is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56984]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very rare that you get to go up and meet fans and especially at their house and surprise them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very rare that you get to go up and meet fans and especially at their house and surprise them. To come and knock on somebody's door is kind of a neat experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25340]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merritt and Ashley really got us going in the second half. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merritt and Ashley really got us going in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46215]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence of proof is not proof of absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence of proof is not proof of absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833  We must always be on our guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.  ... St. Basil the Great  January 3, 1998  Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for our divisions are a real stumbling-block to the proclamation of the Gospel... Mission is at the heart of the divine reality. It is the will of God and the Kingdom of God which are to be made known. Wherever we are, our purpose is not to propagate the Church as an end in itself, but to proclaim Christ as Lord of all life and as Saviour of all men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without labor nothing prospers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without labor nothing prospers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strangers are friends you have yet to meet ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strangers are friends you have yet to meet]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course one should not drink much, but often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course one should not drink much, but often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunt had two key plays on which they excelled. We had a bunch of opportunities, but we didn't excel. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunt had two key plays on which they excelled. We had a bunch of opportunities, but we didn't excel. But each week, we're going to get better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62810</guid></item></channel></rss>