<?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[Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blushed like the waves of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blushed like the waves of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evidence is clear. This reaches the top -- the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41219]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evidence is clear. This reaches the top -- the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of these crimes and the people that protected them will never face the penalties they deserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duncan will be touching down in Cape Town, and getting straight back on the next available flight. He will definitely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duncan will be touching down in Cape Town, and getting straight back on the next available flight. He will definitely be back in India for the next one-day international.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It walked around and seemed like she was OK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41798]]></link><description><![CDATA[It walked around and seemed like she was OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392  The characteristic of our modern Christianity, which correlates it with all apostolic times, is the substitution of loyalty to a person in place of belief in doctrines, as the essence and test of Christian life. This is the simplicity and unity by which the Gospel can become effective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling lies does not work in advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling lies does not work in advertising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think Chase and Bank One will let that happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35534]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think Chase and Bank One will let that happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10379]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15483]]></link><description><![CDATA[No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis puto  Cum is nihil promereat, postulare id gratiae apponi sibi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65480]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind, supports the body too:  Hence, the most vital movement mortals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind, supports the body too:  Hence, the most vital movement mortals feel   Is hope, the balm and lifeblood of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55440]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them for. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25416]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[not to allow Lebanon to be a passage for conspiracy against Syria. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29896]]></link><description><![CDATA[not to allow Lebanon to be a passage for conspiracy against Syria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2412]]></link><description><![CDATA[The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom said, 'Get up.' Society said, 'Get up.' Politics said, 'Get up.' The bus driver said, 'Get up.' But you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom said, 'Get up.' Society said, 'Get up.' Politics said, 'Get up.' The bus driver said, 'Get up.' But you gave her the power to stay seated. She heard your voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who doesn't want to win, especially at home, with family here and an opportunity to enjoy it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who doesn't want to win, especially at home, with family here and an opportunity to enjoy it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there a man whose judgment clear Can others teach the course to steer,  Yet runs himself life's mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there a man whose judgment clear Can others teach the course to steer,  Yet runs himself life's mad career,   Wild as the wave?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus lived His life in complete dependence upon God, as we all ought to live our lives. But such dependence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus lived His life in complete dependence upon God, as we all ought to live our lives. But such dependence does not destroy human personality. Man is never so fully and so truly personal as when he is living in complete dependence upon God. This is how personality comes into its own. This is humanity at its most personal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though no one can go back and make a brand new start my friend, anyone canstart from now and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though no one can go back and make a brand new start my friend, anyone canstart from now and make a brand new end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17632]]></link><description><![CDATA[My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29840]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the left, we've always talked about the need to have an echo chamber. We believe the right has a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38655]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the left, we've always talked about the need to have an echo chamber. We believe the right has a whole media network, from talk radio to Fox News to Matt Drudge. The left doesn't have that because the left doesn't play well with others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new lens to look through. Hear the pain in people's speaking. Peoplewho have an ear to hear can hear. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21957]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new lens to look through. Hear the pain in people's speaking. Peoplewho have an ear to hear can hear. You will no longer tolerate what youused to tolerate. A second point of reality. It's the loving thing to do.What's being revealed here? Dogs don't have things wrong. Wrongdisempowers people. Upsets indicate a "right" that's beenviolated. Notice when you are angry that you are the only one around. Theonly constant thing is you. Business is made up. It's invented. If itreally turns you on, you may want to inform your face. There is no"right" way. .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill; Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?  Lord help 'em, how I pities them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56168]]></link><description><![CDATA[A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill; Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?  Lord help 'em, how I pities them   Unhappy folks on shore, now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your identity and your success go hand in hand. Many people sacrifice their identities by not doing what they really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your identity and your success go hand in hand. Many people sacrifice their identities by not doing what they really want to do. And that's why they're not successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible. [Fr., Les souvenirs embellissent la vie, l'oubli seul la rend possible.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible. [Fr., Les souvenirs embellissent la vie, l'oubli seul la rend possible.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is the sum and total of a person's choices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars.  Not the bright stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58795]]></link><description><![CDATA[No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars.  Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,   Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,    Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows     Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52556</guid></item></channel></rss>