<?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[Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5255]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27274]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the brink of it Picture it--think of it,  Dissolute man.   Lave in it--drink of it  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the brink of it Picture it--think of it,  Dissolute man.   Lave in it--drink of it    Then, if you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice pleaseth few in their owne house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice pleaseth few in their owne house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29981]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want more self-regulation. Technology is moving too fast and business practices are changing too fast for governments to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32870]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want more self-regulation. Technology is moving too fast and business practices are changing too fast for governments to be able to anticipate every little thing,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45489]]></link><description><![CDATA[You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last, lonely trailing indicator of the business cycle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last, lonely trailing indicator of the business cycle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He (Thomas) started to make a move on me into one, he had such a good run I actually had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He (Thomas) started to make a move on me into one, he had such a good run I actually had to close the door on him and hope he wasn't going to turn me around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birmingham is participating in a national programme of commemorations to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birmingham is participating in a national programme of commemorations to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33601]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fall of dropping water wears away the stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fall of dropping water wears away the stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1478]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its just one big shock, knowing Ill never see him again, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its just one big shock, knowing Ill never see him again,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46054]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51055]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23874]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very important that they keep us thinking and keep us learning. That's the point of a university. Marquette is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32167]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very important that they keep us thinking and keep us learning. That's the point of a university. Marquette is trying to do that within a Catholic context.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During production, I didn't ever have one minute off to go file my nails, or do anything which girls quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62678]]></link><description><![CDATA[During production, I didn't ever have one minute off to go file my nails, or do anything which girls quite like to do some of the time. I couldn't do anything. I turned into a zombie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TSA is going to extend its outreach into other modes of transportation. We think this is a very good approach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32916]]></link><description><![CDATA[TSA is going to extend its outreach into other modes of transportation. We think this is a very good approach to test our tools and quickly deploy resources in the event of a situation or a threat. It shows we could be at any of these places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know how on St. Patrick's Day everybody is Irish. In Quincy this weekend, everybody's German, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42016]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know how on St. Patrick's Day everybody is Irish. In Quincy this weekend, everybody's German,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis ismalpractice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21186]]></link><description><![CDATA[In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis ismalpractice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43833]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every teacher has to learn the lession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every teacher has to learn the lession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. [Lat., Stultum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18579]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. [Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito maeror levaretur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  No man can be without his god. If he have not the true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  No man can be without his god. If he have not the true God to bless and sustain him, he will have some false god to delude and to betray him. The Psalmist knew this, and therefore he joined so closely forgetting the name of our God and holding up our hands to some strange god. For every man has something in which he hopes, on which he leans, to which he retreats and retires, with which he fills up his thoughts in empty spaces of time, when he is alone, when he lies sleepless on his bed, when he is not pressed with other thoughts; to which he betakes himself in sorrow or trouble, as that from which he shall draw comfort and strength -- his fortress, his citadel, his defence; and has not this a good right to be called his god? Man was made to lean on the Creator; but if not on Him, then he leans on the creature in one shape or another. The ivy cannot grow alone: it must twine round some support or other; if not the goodly oak, then the ragged thorn -- round any dead stick whatever, rather than have no stay or support at all. It is even so with the heart and affections of man; if they do not twine around God, they must twine around some meaner thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try not to make it too difficult for them, ... But their are some good golfers that we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28789]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try not to make it too difficult for them, ... But their are some good golfers that we have to challenge. Finding the balance is difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and of little accidents; not allowing to itself any infirmity which it strives not to master, aiming at what it cannot yet reach, desiring to be of an angelic purity, and of a perfect innocence, and a seraphical fervor, and fears every image of offense; is as much afflicted at an idle word as some at an act of adultery, and will not allow to itself so much anger as will disturb a child, nor endure the impurity of a dream. And this is the curiosity and niceness of divine love: this is the fear of God, and is the daughter and production of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel fortunate to get out of here with a victory. It feels like a loss though because we didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel fortunate to get out of here with a victory. It feels like a loss though because we didn't deserve to win and Bridgeport did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18762]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could trace my origins to Judas Maccabaeus or King David, that would not add one inch to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36749]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could trace my origins to Judas Maccabaeus or King David, that would not add one inch to my stature. It may well be that many East European Jews are descended from Khazars, I may be one of them. Who knows? And who cares?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A load would sink a navy. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56043]]></link><description><![CDATA[A load would sink a navy. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5334]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12028</guid></item></channel></rss>