<?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[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles   Life together under the Word will remain sound and healthy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles   Life together under the Word will remain sound and healthy only where it does not form itself into a movement, an order, a society... but rather where it understands itself as being a part of the one, holy, catholic, Christian Church, where it shares actively and passively in the sufferings and struggles of the whole Church. Every principle of selection, every separation connected with it that is not necessitated quite objectively by common work, local conditions, or family connections is of the greatest danger to a Christian community. When the way of intellectual or spiritual selection is taken, the human element always insinuates itself and robs the fellowship of its spiritual power and its effectiveness for the Church, and drives it into sectarianism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is my vocation, Hal; 't is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. -King Henry IV. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55838]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is my vocation, Hal; 't is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth. [Lat., O quam cito transit gloria mundi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17548]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth. [Lat., O quam cito transit gloria mundi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26174]]></link><description><![CDATA[No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62477]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never think of leaving perfumes or wine to your heir. Administer these yourself, and let him have your money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never think of leaving perfumes or wine to your heir. Administer these yourself, and let him have your money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is great force hidden in a gentle command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22548]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is great force hidden in a gentle command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we think there are privacy and equal protection issues at stake here that we just have to have cleared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30964]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we think there are privacy and equal protection issues at stake here that we just have to have cleared up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3041]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?--Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?--Why by interweaving our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?--Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?--Why by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour or caprice?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night is the mother of Councels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night is the mother of Councels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had pitching in the first game, but the hitting wasn't there. We got the bats alive a little bit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42500]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had pitching in the first game, but the hitting wasn't there. We got the bats alive a little bit in the second game, but we couldn't keep it going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time flies never to be recalled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time flies never to be recalled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never expected to get this far. It starts with our unselfishness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39314]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never expected to get this far. It starts with our unselfishness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're clearly sending a message to employees that they will be rewarded for high performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39800]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're clearly sending a message to employees that they will be rewarded for high performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even really remember what happened. I just put my elbow back and I guess I hit him. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even really remember what happened. I just put my elbow back and I guess I hit him. It wasn't intentional. I was just playing hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christianity is what Jesus taught and lived and died for, then nothing can be truly the Gospel which lays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6577]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christianity is what Jesus taught and lived and died for, then nothing can be truly the Gospel which lays less stress than he did upon every human being's need of forgiveness by God, and upon our human need to be perpetually forgiving each other. Sooner or later, the modern adult man, like all other men everywhere, must come to know his need to be forgiven, and that by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14271]]></link><description><![CDATA[To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I felt the moral obligation to help prevent what happened to me from happening to our people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41277]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I felt the moral obligation to help prevent what happened to me from happening to our people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should remember that saying 'I love you' is only a beginning. We need to say it, we need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should remember that saying 'I love you' is only a beginning. We need to say it, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to show it. We need to both express and demonstrate love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then my dial goes not true; I look this lark for a bunting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then my dial goes not true; I look this lark for a bunting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zealous, not modest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zealous, not modest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within.  So those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within.  So those in this world who would rise and shine   Should seek internal excellence to win.    And though 'tis true that falsehood and despair     Meet in my name, yet bear it still in mind      That where they meet they perish. All is fair       When they are gone and nought remains behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent does not invariably create a desire for change. Other factors have to be present before discontent turns into disaffection. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent does not invariably create a desire for change. Other factors have to be present before discontent turns into disaffection. One of these is a sense of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am about to -- or I am going to -- die; either expression is used. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am about to -- or I am going to -- die; either expression is used.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was good to see us rise to occasion. Getting an early lead gives you a mental edge. You know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33414]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was good to see us rise to occasion. Getting an early lead gives you a mental edge. You know one mistake is not going to beat you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It obviously makes a statement about status and the ability to afford it but I think it's also a spontaneous, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It obviously makes a statement about status and the ability to afford it but I think it's also a spontaneous, celebratory thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43587]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3368]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35607]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort of falls in the middle somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were selling as soon as they hit the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36088]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were selling as soon as they hit the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never got a real big lead on them, and we got to work on some things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37857]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never got a real big lead on them, and we got to work on some things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16567]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57500]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66356</guid></item></channel></rss>