<?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[Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59086]]></link><description><![CDATA[For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's a great leader. She's a bundle of energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38143]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's a great leader. She's a bundle of energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are magical. . .the more you pet them the longer you both live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are magical. . .the more you pet them the longer you both live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands defauts.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13591]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28417]]></link><description><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get anything out of them these days. And I am talking about stuff that has historically been readily disclosed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13429]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3286]]></link><description><![CDATA[You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keepe good men company, and you shall be of the number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keepe good men company, and you shall be of the number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52482]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8432]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15335]]></link><description><![CDATA[On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be an orientation on Sept. 29, where there will be commitment between guides and parents. No location has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40122]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be an orientation on Sept. 29, where there will be commitment between guides and parents. No location has been designated as yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship -- and not as ends in themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that preacheth giveth almes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49388]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that preacheth giveth almes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61740]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They ordered him to drop the knife, and he just kept backpedaling. Then he lunged at an officer, who had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32913]]></link><description><![CDATA[They ordered him to drop the knife, and he just kept backpedaling. Then he lunged at an officer, who had to step back to avoid being stabbed in the chest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32384]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath no head, needes no heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath no head, needes no heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the world you are just one persone, but to one person you could mean the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53392]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the world you are just one persone, but to one person you could mean the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941  Paul does not forbid you to use rites and ceremonies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941  Paul does not forbid you to use rites and ceremonies, but it is not his wish that he who is free in Christ should be bound by them. He does not condemn the law of works if only one uses it lawfully. Without these things perhaps you will not be pious; but they do not make you pious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dictate of the light says: "Know yourself and what you are." The dark replies, "By all means, but then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45134]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dictate of the light says: "Know yourself and what you are." The dark replies, "By all means, but then become afraid."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And for our country 'tis a bliss to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45787]]></link><description><![CDATA[And for our country 'tis a bliss to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... And what about Zombies? You never hear from Zombies! That's the trouble with Zombies, they're unreliable! I say if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62680]]></link><description><![CDATA[... And what about Zombies? You never hear from Zombies! That's the trouble with Zombies, they're unreliable! I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit you might as well go for the Zombie package as well..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44845]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We welcome news of the pope's arrival. It's a good thing -- it will promote good feelings among us all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28332]]></link><description><![CDATA[We welcome news of the pope's arrival. It's a good thing -- it will promote good feelings among us all, ... After all, it's the pope. He's not just anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a long season. Everybody's tired, nobody is healthy, really. When (Harris) came off the injury, he was really never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40717]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a long season. Everybody's tired, nobody is healthy, really. When (Harris) came off the injury, he was really never 100 percent. He's trying to feel his way back into playing basketball. Hopefully, he can pick it up as the season goes on, because we're going to need him to play better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12207]]></link><description><![CDATA["How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66163]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle,   And it soft as silk remains.    'Tis the same with common natures,     Use 'em kindly, they rebel;      But, be rough as nutmeg-graters,       And the rogues obey you well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had better stop writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41086]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had better stop writing for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cast not the clouded gem away, Quench not the dim but living ray,--  My brother man, Beware!   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cast not the clouded gem away, Quench not the dim but living ray,--  My brother man, Beware!   With that deep voice which from the skies    Forbade the Patriarch's sacrifice.     God's angel, cries, Forbear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the best sorrow in a Christian soul when his sins are loathsome and offensive unto him--a happy token ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7579]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the best sorrow in a Christian soul when his sins are loathsome and offensive unto him--a happy token that there hath not been of late in him any insensible supply of heinous offenses, because his stale sins are still his new and daily sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well and harmoniously developed body, tense muscles, an elastic and finely toned skin, bright eyes, grace and animation of carriage- all these things which are essential to beauty are the conditions of health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52044</guid></item></channel></rss>