<?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[The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The convenience group is declining rapidly. In 1998 that group made up 16.8% of our sample. The 3% that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32135]]></link><description><![CDATA[The convenience group is declining rapidly. In 1998 that group made up 16.8% of our sample. The 3% that was lost by 2003 was about evenly split among the other four groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul  May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;  While he who walks in love may wander far,  Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Horse AN ASS besought a Horse to spare him a small portion of his feed. Yes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Horse AN ASS besought a Horse to spare him a small portion of his feed. Yes, said the Horse; if any remains out of what I am noweating I will give it you for the sake of my own superiordignity, and if you will come when I reach my own stall in theevening, I will give you a little sack full of barley. The Assreplied, Thank you. But I can't think that you, who refuse me alittle matter now. will by and by confer on me a greaterbenefit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The twig is so easily bended I have banished the rule and the rod:  I have taught them the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The twig is so easily bended I have banished the rule and the rod:  I have taught them the goodness of knowledge,   They have taught me the goodness of God;    My heart is the dungeon of darkness,     When I shut them for breaking a rule;      My frown is sufficient correction;       My love is the law of the school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're always a rough and tumble, blue-collar team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31953]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're always a rough and tumble, blue-collar team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be safe than sorry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be safe than sorry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dan understands the dynamics of what goes on here in athletics. He also relates well to the kids. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dan understands the dynamics of what goes on here in athletics. He also relates well to the kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent the last month looking at special teams film, mornings and afternoons. Go home at night and I'm watching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent the last month looking at special teams film, mornings and afternoons. Go home at night and I'm watching horror film, watching all the misery, looking at all those people having their lives changed forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's just scary how hurricanes or any kind of storms could just hit people and let people die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39010]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's just scary how hurricanes or any kind of storms could just hit people and let people die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louisiana should be able to apply the word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂadmirableÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â to her dream of a modern medical teaching facility. Yet, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Louisiana should be able to apply the word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂadmirableÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â to her dream of a modern medical teaching facility. Yet, when a dream transcends to desire and intention is conquered by cupidity, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂadmirabilityÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â is reduced to depravity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50280]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it gently. That was just why it stung you, said his Mother. The next time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to your hand, and not in the least hurt you. Whatever you do, do with all your might.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, what fools these mortals be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, what fools these mortals be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have but one, and only hate, We love as one, we hate as one,  We have one foe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18857]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have but one, and only hate, We love as one, we hate as one,  We have one foe and one alone.   [Ger., Wir haben nur einen einzigen Hass,    Wir lieben vereint, wir hassen vereint,     Wir haben nur einen einzigen Feind.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as you follow the new procedural rules, it shouldn't hurt you that bad if the bankruptcy is really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35018]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as you follow the new procedural rules, it shouldn't hurt you that bad if the bankruptcy is really warranted,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2372]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concept of community involvement is a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concept of community involvement is a joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For idleness is an appendix to nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20329]]></link><description><![CDATA[For idleness is an appendix to nobility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom comes by disillusionment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51881]]></link><description><![CDATA[What may be done at any time will be done at no time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frugality is one thing, avarice another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frugality is one thing, avarice another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932   Now what ought to have been the attitude of thoughtful Christians towards ecclesiastical authority, resulting from our Lord's whole attitude towards it? I think that the Catholic Church ought to have maintained and used ecclesiastical and sacerdotal authority, but that its maintenance and its use ought to have been accompanied with a continual fear. Because they had before them this fact, that however divinely authoritative, however securely resting on a basis of legitimate and genuine inspiration, yet the ecclesiastical authority of the Old Covenant, by no process of sudden revolution, but simply by a process of gradual development, was capable of becoming something so utterly alien in spirit from what it was intended to be, that when the Christ came, to prepare for whom and to welcome whom was the one reason for which it existed, it did in fact reject Him utterly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I've become numb to that over the last 15 years, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37641]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I've become numb to that over the last 15 years,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People mistake their limitations for high standards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15433]]></link><description><![CDATA[People mistake their limitations for high standards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16685]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17988]]></link><description><![CDATA[And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider not what may do, but what it will become you to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider not what may do, but what it will become you to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65009]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a.  A merry heart goes all the day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a.  A merry heart goes all the day,   Your sad tires in a mile-a.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy for the girls. A state championship is something you can take with you the rest of your life. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38080]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy for the girls. A state championship is something you can take with you the rest of your life. They've worked very hard for this, and I'm very happy for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No great genius is without an admixture of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17352]]></link><description><![CDATA[No great genius is without an admixture of madness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21004]]></link><description><![CDATA[.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The continued weakness in a number of components of the index suggests that it's more than just high oil prices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The continued weakness in a number of components of the index suggests that it's more than just high oil prices that are ailing the economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best actors do not let the wheels show. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best actors do not let the wheels show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/439</guid></item></channel></rss>