<?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[Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11630]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stern is the visage of necessity. [Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stern is the visage of necessity. [Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerfulchannel. (on focus). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21073]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerfulchannel. (on focus).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A merry monarch, scandalous and poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54530]]></link><description><![CDATA[A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45757]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58067]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise learn many things from their enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21081]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise learn many things from their enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art the Mars of malcontents. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art the Mars of malcontents. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't get too much winter in the winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65776]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't get too much winter in the winter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say that which is instructive and also pleasing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48554]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly are lost?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   "The Bible," we are told sometimes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   "The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives us no picture at all. It reveals to us a fact: it tells us what we really are; it says, This is the form in which God created you, to which He has restored you; this is the work which the Eternal Son, the God of Truth and Love, is continually carrying on within you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you\'ll make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66890]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you\'ll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you\'ll get to where you want to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing that I think we've done this season is to show navy and gray in a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing that I think we've done this season is to show navy and gray in a very new way. Most men understand navy and gray as a navy blazer and a gray flannel trouser, but today, we're taking that very traditional color palette and putting it in a more modern shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48637]]></link><description><![CDATA[He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6081]]></link><description><![CDATA[In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Adam's fall-- We sinned all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56390]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Adam's fall-- We sinned all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talk on principle, but we act on interest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22952]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talk on principle, but we act on interest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5033]]></link><description><![CDATA[They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3721]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54631]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28181]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[I kiss the soil] as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23877]]></link><description><![CDATA[[I kiss the soil] as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They may migrate in a direction, either up or down, depending on which bank becomes the lead on the consumer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35533]]></link><description><![CDATA[They may migrate in a direction, either up or down, depending on which bank becomes the lead on the consumer side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  But how shall we rest in God? By giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  But how shall we rest in God? By giving ourselves wholly to Him. If you give yourself by halves, you cannot find full rest -- there will ever be a lurking disquiet in that half which is withheld... All peace and happiness in this world depend upon unreserved self-oblation to God. If this be hearty and entire, the result will be an unfailing, ever-increasing happiness, which nothing can disturb. There is no real happiness in this life save that which is the result of a peaceful heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Un gros serpent mordit Aurele. Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?  Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!   Ce fut le ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Un gros serpent mordit Aurele. Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?  Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!   Ce fut le serpent qui creva.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to fly without wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50876]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to fly without wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defense stepped up, which is what we expect around here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defense stepped up, which is what we expect around here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationshipsmoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of consciousness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationshipsmoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of consciousness withoutpain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The publication of 'The Colorado Kid' represents a big step forward for us, ... With a first printing of nearly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31394]]></link><description><![CDATA[The publication of 'The Colorado Kid' represents a big step forward for us, ... With a first printing of nearly one million copies, it's by far the biggest book we've ever published, quite possibly the biggest [distributor] Dorchester has ever published as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61925]]></link><description><![CDATA[But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44066]]></link><description><![CDATA[By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13392</guid></item></channel></rss>