<?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[It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're there before it's over, you're on time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52533]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're there before it's over, you're on time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend,  With love that cannot brook ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43303]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend,  With love that cannot brook delay,   To rise and follow the ways that wend    Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397  It is a great mystery of divine love, that not even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397  It is a great mystery of divine love, that not even in Christ was exception made of the death of the body; and although He was the Lord of nature, He refused not the law of the flesh which He had taken upon Him. It is necessary for me to die; for Him it was not necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find  A wife I need not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61862]]></link><description><![CDATA[And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find  A wife I need not blush to show   I've little further now to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that every time I'm with you, makes me believe in magic? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that every time I'm with you, makes me believe in magic?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look back, and all of this doesn't seem real. It's amazing how God has helped me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look back, and all of this doesn't seem real. It's amazing how God has helped me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. -The Merchant of Venice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55592]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll probably trend a little bit lower [in the next couple of weeks]. A lot of the gains have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28345]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll probably trend a little bit lower [in the next couple of weeks]. A lot of the gains have been on positive comments made by companies like Dell and IBM, but I think a lot of this reflects market-share shifts rather than a recovery in the overall market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45054]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you find yourself at the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46535]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We picked Indiana as our location for many reasons, one of which is soybean availability, access to transportation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34592]]></link><description><![CDATA[We picked Indiana as our location for many reasons, one of which is soybean availability, access to transportation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All life is an experiment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14658]]></link><description><![CDATA[All life is an experiment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum. [Fr., Entre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum. [Fr., Entre le penis et les mathematiques . . . il n'existe rien. Rien! C'est le vide.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure everyone looks at the standings at one time or another. We knew the Yankees would be there from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure everyone looks at the standings at one time or another. We knew the Yankees would be there from Day 1. We knew it would be a tight race and it will probably come down to the last three games of the season against these guys. They're two good teams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chair of the ladies, and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbour's sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man provokes me with impunity. [Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2547]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man provokes me with impunity. [Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. . . . A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open. [Lat., Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes: Fama malum quo non velocius ullum;  Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo;   Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras,    Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit.     . . . .      Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumae       Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu,        Tot linquae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man should be shamefaced through his work, to give back to the worlda portion of its lost heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21838]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man should be shamefaced through his work, to give back to the worlda portion of its lost heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made a lot less mistakes, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28451]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made a lot less mistakes,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel and know that we are eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20625]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel and know that we are eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  The minister is the servant of his people, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  The minister is the servant of his people, who has to help them discern for themselves the will of God for their real work in the real world. It will often be his duty, therefore, to establish a certain economy in the internal life of the Church, so that people are released to give time and energy to fulfilment of their Christian duty in the worlds of industry or politics or business or professional life, where their most determinative decisions have to be taken. A new puritanism is urgently needed in most churches, which cuts away ruthlessly from their life all organizations and activities which prevent their members from grappling with their real task.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies;  The fleecy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies;  The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare,   And shed their substance on the floating air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass, the Fox, and the LionThe ass and the fox, having entered into partnership together fortheir mutual protection, went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1606]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass, the Fox, and the LionThe ass and the fox, having entered into partnership together fortheir mutual protection, went out into the forest to hunt. Theyhadnot proceeded far when they met a Lion. The Fox, seeing imminentdanger, approached the Lion and promised to contrive for him thecapture of the Ass if the Lion would pledge his word not to harmtheFox. Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not be injured,theFox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he should fall into it.The Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately clutchedtheFox, and attacked the Ass at his leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt  Have each their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10656]]></link><description><![CDATA[But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt  Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15862]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had always told me that I wrote like a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29701]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had always told me that I wrote like a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53278]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable of the two animals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea makes you laugh, and you're instantly sympathetic. We've all lived through that moment where we had sex for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea makes you laugh, and you're instantly sympathetic. We've all lived through that moment where we had sex for the first time. You're terrified, so the idea of a guy so scared he let it get past him is relatable to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   I desire now to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6696</guid></item></channel></rss>