<?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[If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53644]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are slipping back into a war situation. If the attacks go on, there will come a time when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36732]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are slipping back into a war situation. If the attacks go on, there will come a time when the army has to retaliate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes to those who wait...except a cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes to those who wait...except a cat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9101]]></link><description><![CDATA[A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow,  The devotion to something afar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow,  The devotion to something afar   From the sphere of our sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. [Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. [Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum;  Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think in generalities, but we live in detail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65913]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think in generalities, but we live in detail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53650]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   As out of Jesus' affliction came a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   As out of Jesus' affliction came a new sense of God's love and a new basis for love between men, so out of our affliction we may grasp the splendor of God's love and how to love one another. Thus the consummation of the two commandments was on Golgotha; and the Cross is, at once, their image and their fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark,  A moving radiance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark,  A moving radiance twinkles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35763]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the Democrats have done a better job on voter registration efforts. Whether you can get those voters out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36493]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the Democrats have done a better job on voter registration efforts. Whether you can get those voters out on Election Day remains to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wonder of the life of Jesus is this -- and you will find it so and you have found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wonder of the life of Jesus is this -- and you will find it so and you have found it so if you have ever taken your New Testament and tried to make it the rule of your daily life -- that there is not a single action that you are called upon to do of which you need be, of which you will be, in any serious doubt for ten minutes as to what Jesus Christ, if he were here, Jesus Christ being here, would have you do under those circumstances and with the materials upon which you are called upon to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24643]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's real life is often the life that one does not lead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53222]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's real life is often the life that one does not lead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But above all things truth is victor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59799]]></link><description><![CDATA[But above all things truth is victor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58828]]></link><description><![CDATA[And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. [Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. [Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3038]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the x-rays, there doesn't seem to be any major (fracture) but we are waiting for a full report on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34717]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the x-rays, there doesn't seem to be any major (fracture) but we are waiting for a full report on that. Every ankle injury is different but I think we are faced with a (serious) tear of the lateral ligament and there is associated bone bruising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lion Beer needs to increase its export business to maintain viable growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lion Beer needs to increase its export business to maintain viable growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The engineers had to redesign the software, reprogram the tape recorder and had to get Galileo to do data compression, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31979]]></link><description><![CDATA[The engineers had to redesign the software, reprogram the tape recorder and had to get Galileo to do data compression,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31979</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[Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see how it is possible in the nature of things for any revival of religion to continue long. For religion must necessarily produce both industry and frugality, and these cannot but produce riches. But as riches increase, so will pride, anger, and love of the world in all its branches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one? [Lat., Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot capita in unum conspirare possint?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4776]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people don't even expect us to score on these teams, ... We score twice, that might break their momentum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people don't even expect us to score on these teams, ... We score twice, that might break their momentum and make them ask, 'How are they doing this to us?' Whether it's one point or it's 30 points, I'm going to be upset because a loss is a loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64482]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify -Henry Thoreau. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify -Henry Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a chance to sit and watch the press from the bench, so when I got the chance to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29738]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a chance to sit and watch the press from the bench, so when I got the chance to go in, I had an idea of what I could do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a team goes through a streak like we're on, it's real easy to lose confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37354]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a team goes through a streak like we're on, it's real easy to lose confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38555]]></link><description><![CDATA[They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through our life without any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through our life without any obstacles, we would be crippled. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. Give every opportunity a chance, leave no room for regrets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel I deserve a raise just because the price of gasoline is going up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel I deserve a raise just because the price of gasoline is going up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real Madrid is in a mess because it's suffering really high pressure and demands. We must take the initiative because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real Madrid is in a mess because it's suffering really high pressure and demands. We must take the initiative because we're at home, we're only a point behind and we can make history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I play in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I play in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth,  With ring of Agate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth,  With ring of Agate on her hand,   Can health, wealth, and long life command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48467</guid></item></channel></rss>