<?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[A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry. [Sp., Una muger no tiene.  Valor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry. [Sp., Una muger no tiene.  Valor para el consejo, y la conviene Casarse.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61367]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3319]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34755]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23929]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8540]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[represented the generation of young Scots who fought in the First World War, and endured unimaginable horrors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28882]]></link><description><![CDATA[represented the generation of young Scots who fought in the First World War, and endured unimaginable horrors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3796]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60295]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada's housing markets remained robust in early 2006, despite slightly higher mortgage rates. However, the dominant theme lurking beneath the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canada's housing markets remained robust in early 2006, despite slightly higher mortgage rates. However, the dominant theme lurking beneath the national average results is clear signs that speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be coming in for a soft-landing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that a lot of gay people feel like if you're openly gay, by doing so you're sacrificing being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that a lot of gay people feel like if you're openly gay, by doing so you're sacrificing being any kind of public figure on Howard's campus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider yourself as always wrong, as having gone aside, and lost your right path, when any delight, desire, or trouble, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider yourself as always wrong, as having gone aside, and lost your right path, when any delight, desire, or trouble, is suffered to live in you, that cannot be made a part of this prayer of the heart to God. For nothing so infallibly shows us the true state of our heart, as that which gives us either delight or trouble; for as our delight and trouble is, so is the state of our heart: if therefore you are carried away with any trouble or delight, that has not an immediate relation to your progress in the divine life, you may be assured your heart is not in its right state of prayer to God. [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25501]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17415]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With these qualities, we can achieve revival and bounce back stronger than ever before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40868]]></link><description><![CDATA[With these qualities, we can achieve revival and bounce back stronger than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22956]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me. [Fr., Mes malheurs sont combles, mais ma vertu me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57245]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me. [Fr., Mes malheurs sont combles, mais ma vertu me reste.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a quick fix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a quick fix.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My prediction? This move will be completely forgotten. Few to nobody will use it. And, 6 to 12 months from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42165]]></link><description><![CDATA[My prediction? This move will be completely forgotten. Few to nobody will use it. And, 6 to 12 months from now, Oracle will have to give a real response to the open-source threat it faces. Tossing a lightweight database in front of a fast-moving market that wants free, open, and killer databases just won't fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We looked at a whole host of demographics in cities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37322]]></link><description><![CDATA[We looked at a whole host of demographics in cities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62159]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll potch at him some way; Or wrath or craft may get him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll potch at him some way; Or wrath or craft may get him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money doesn't talk, it swears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money doesn't talk, it swears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58730]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61112]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  We must try to be at one and the same time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  We must try to be at one and the same time for the Church and against the Church. They alone can serve her faithfully whose consciences are continually exercised as to whether they ought not, for Christ's sake, to leave her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24182]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a circus--always packing up and moving away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a circus--always packing up and moving away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49364]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63999]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13176]]></link><description><![CDATA[That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18204]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953   In this state of things I saw no remedy but faith and patience. The passage of Scripture which subdued and controlled my mind was this, "The servant of the Lord must not strive." It was painful indeed to see the church, with the exception of the aisles, almost forsaken; but I thought that if God would only give a double blessing to the congregation that did attend, there would on the whole be as much good done as if the congregation were doubled and the blessing limited to only half the amount. This comforted me many, many times, when, without such a reflection, I should have sunk under my burden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thine own purpose, thou hast sent The strife and the discouragement! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46159]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thine own purpose, thou hast sent The strife and the discouragement!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbelievable. He was great. It was the best I've seen him -- I've had Gibby for three years, and he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbelievable. He was great. It was the best I've seen him -- I've had Gibby for three years, and he's had some great performances, including a no-hitter against Maryland, but today was the best performance I've seen him have -- total control, total command. ... He was outstanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29691]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more costly it is for governments to kill them. Evidence indicates that governments respond to this economic incentive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1346</guid></item></channel></rss>