<?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[Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64482]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He forced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23292]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He forced us to create a counterfoil. We found a vet named John O’Neill and formed a group called Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace. We had O’Neill meet the President, and we did everything we could do to boost his group]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15243]]></link><description><![CDATA[This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad Dorismar agreed to cooperate, but next time I would prefer a Mexican actress, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36592]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad Dorismar agreed to cooperate, but next time I would prefer a Mexican actress,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of saying we all sit together and agree to share the profit is highly problematic because different groups ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of saying we all sit together and agree to share the profit is highly problematic because different groups of people will demand a bigger slice of the pie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With any disease in wildlife, there are so many factors, getting a good handle on it can be difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41842]]></link><description><![CDATA[With any disease in wildlife, there are so many factors, getting a good handle on it can be difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no crime. [Lat., Neque femina amissa pudicitia alia abneurit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5801]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no crime. [Lat., Neque femina amissa pudicitia alia abneurit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21994]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do or do not... there is no try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do or do not... there is no try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3680]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be coming in for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be coming in for a soft landing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set good against evill. [Set good against evil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set good against evill. [Set good against evil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you make a mistake and miss your fate? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before mid-October it will be up and running. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before mid-October it will be up and running.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better the feet slip then the tongue. [Better the feet slip than the tongue.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better the feet slip then the tongue. [Better the feet slip than the tongue.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please. -As You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43230]]></link><description><![CDATA[A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22398]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58677]]></link><description><![CDATA[To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach me to live that I may dread The grace as little as my bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach me to live that I may dread The grace as little as my bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've owned a lot of crap in my days -- rental houses and strip malls -- but we finally got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've owned a lot of crap in my days -- rental houses and strip malls -- but we finally got this place, and it's worth all the crap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the same phone service. So he can always call me for free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33539]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the same phone service. So he can always call me for free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't get a lot of pub. We're not in the media, we're not in the papers, so people figure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28590]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't get a lot of pub. We're not in the media, we're not in the papers, so people figure we're just sneaking by, getting lucky and winning games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three lessons I would write,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three lessons I would write,  Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light,  Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though clouds environ round,  And gladness hides her face in scorn,  Put off the shadow from thy brow:  No night but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven -  The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven,  The inhabitants of earth. Have Love. Not love alone for one,  But man, as man, thy brother call;  And scatter, like a circling sun,  Thy charities on all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dick Cheney blows birds outof the sky for pleasurebut he drops bombs onIraqi childrenfor power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dick Cheney blows birds outof the sky for pleasurebut he drops bombs onIraqi childrenfor power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of masculinity has now been commercialized. Femininity had been commercialized a while ago. But men, in general, have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of masculinity has now been commercialized. Femininity had been commercialized a while ago. But men, in general, have lost what the meaning of what being a man is all about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47671]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11404]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   The life of holiness is the life of faith in which the believer, with a deepening knowledge of his own sin and helplessness apart from Christ, increasingly casts himself upon the Lord, and seeks the power of the Spirit and the wisdom and comfort of the Bible to battle against the world, the flesh, and the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jamie had a little bit of a shot and she pushed the shot a little bit, and I thought (Hanna) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jamie had a little bit of a shot and she pushed the shot a little bit, and I thought (Hanna) did a great job blocking the shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First master the fundamentals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13757]]></link><description><![CDATA[First master the fundamentals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23092]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. . . . We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all recruit hard, they play solid football, they all have a good plan. It's not just someone trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29865]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all recruit hard, they play solid football, they all have a good plan. It's not just someone trying to out-formation you, they know what it's all about. I think the coaching in this league is very strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29865</guid></item></channel></rss>