<?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[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Pentecost  From his baptism until his return to Galilee, Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Pentecost  From his baptism until his return to Galilee, Jesus lived in the company of the disciples of the Baptist. It was there that he received the first public witness of his Messianic role and found his first followers. The gospel was to be rooted in John's teaching of asceticism and regeneration. But we see from the start that the gospel of Jesus was to be quite different. To the baptism of water would be added the baptism of the Spirit, and the new message was to be addressed to all. The widening of the circle of hearers and converts, which had preoccupied John, was to expand still further with the gospel of Jesus. Of the hundreds of thousands of Jews, the Essenes only regarded as saved a few thousand elect. Jesus was soon to offer the Covenant of God to all men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm,  Raineth drop and staineth slop,   And how the wind doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm,  Raineth drop and staineth slop,   And how the wind doth ramm!    Sing: Goddamm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, andprosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22744]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, andprosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result ofa harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with hissurroundings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are the best of the best good temperament, good medical background, good size. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36427]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are the best of the best good temperament, good medical background, good size.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of demand for this type of online content since there are a lot of people that want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42558]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of demand for this type of online content since there are a lot of people that want to see a scene or a movie, but don't want to pay the monthly fee for a site, so now they can get it on DVD.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. is our biggest (oil export) customer. PDVSA is simply responding to that client the way any company should. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. is our biggest (oil export) customer. PDVSA is simply responding to that client the way any company should.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35196]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's Britney Spears and sometimes it's Carrie Fisher. I can't tell if I've got a Lolita complex or an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's Britney Spears and sometimes it's Carrie Fisher. I can't tell if I've got a Lolita complex or an Oedipus complex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43576]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game, ... But I never expected our best score in the state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game, ... But I never expected our best score in the state tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the people begin to reason, all is lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the people begin to reason, all is lost]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould,  The more the marble wastes   The more the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould,  The more the marble wastes   The more the statue grows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth hath a quiet breast. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth hath a quiet breast. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48012]]></link><description><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59115]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45778]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14324]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intense enmity of arrogant powers toward Islam is revealed by their hostile cultural, political and military acts against Muslims. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intense enmity of arrogant powers toward Islam is revealed by their hostile cultural, political and military acts against Muslims. This is also another indisputable reality of the present world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose, but you're gonna win if you just hang in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66569]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's going to be cool because I'm going to be the very first class to go there for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's going to be cool because I'm going to be the very first class to go there for four years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowells of the earth, many a fair pearle in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowells of the earth, many a fair pearle in the bosome of the sea, that never was seene nor never shall bee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity. [Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44767]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity. [Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going through hell, keep going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13631]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going through hell, keep going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8747]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persevere in virtue and diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persevere in virtue and diligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arm of Erin, prove strong, but be gentle as brave, And, uplifted to strike, still be ready to save;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arm of Erin, prove strong, but be gentle as brave, And, uplifted to strike, still be ready to save;  Not one feeling of vengeance presume to defile   The cause or the men of the Emerald Isle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A breeze came wandering from the sky, Light as the whispers of a dream;  He put the o'erhanging grasses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61637]]></link><description><![CDATA[A breeze came wandering from the sky, Light as the whispers of a dream;  He put the o'erhanging grasses by,   And softly stooped to kiss the stream,    The pretty stream, the flattered stream,     The shy, yet unreluctant stream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19394]]></link><description><![CDATA[History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64473]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving prejudices, reckless tongue, feverish desires, with all the damage they have caused to Christ's Body, be set aside, because -- because, in spite of all, he longs for God and Eternal Life: then he must set aside and forgive all that the impatience, selfishness, bitter and foolish speech, and sudden yieldings to base impulse by others have caused him to endure. Hardness is the one impossible thing. Harshness to others in those who ask and need the mercy of God sets up a conflict at the very heart of personality and shuts the door upon grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The No. 1 thing the victim wants is for this to be over with. For some victims the process, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The No. 1 thing the victim wants is for this to be over with. For some victims the process, it's months later (and) you're getting this call, and you've got to show up again. It's all going to come back up again, and you feel that you've managed to forget about it you're sleeping through the night the last thing you want is to bring this all back up again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all The other feigned to be.  The flippant Frenchman speaks: I weep;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all The other feigned to be.  The flippant Frenchman speaks: I weep;   And Shakespeare weeps with me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to correct your own faults than those of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26764]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle  The disorder of secularism is perhaps nowhere more apparent in our contemporary Church than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle  The disorder of secularism is perhaps nowhere more apparent in our contemporary Church than in the extent to which we have permitted the order of the world to creep into the order of the Church... That it should carry out its mission to the men in the middle classes of capitalist society is doubtless a part of the Church's order; but that the mission should result in the formation of a middle-class church which defends the secular outlook and interests of that class is an evident corruption.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25840]]></link><description><![CDATA[For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eating habits are evolving to meet the pace and structure of daily life. Consumers are responding to nutritional needs and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eating habits are evolving to meet the pace and structure of daily life. Consumers are responding to nutritional needs and the demands of daily life by missing meals, changing the times at which they eat and even changing the type of products they eat at each occasion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42185</guid></item></channel></rss>