<?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[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The Lord afflicts us at times; but it is always a thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The Lord afflicts us at times; but it is always a thousand times less than we deserve, and much less than many of our fellow-creatures are suffering around us. Let us therefore pray for grace to be humble, thankful, and patient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22038]]></link><description><![CDATA[I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God Almighty hates a quitter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10368]]></link><description><![CDATA[God Almighty hates a quitter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have information from the Russian side that repair works at the pipeline are complete and that gas started flowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have information from the Russian side that repair works at the pipeline are complete and that gas started flowing into the pipeline this morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our belief in God and knowing that He controls things, whether good or bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our belief in God and knowing that He controls things, whether good or bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10639]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst. [The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst. [The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64414]]></link><description><![CDATA[As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things like that don't bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things like that don't bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in one uniform. It's important for us to keep all our players in the right frame of mind, and it would be great if everyone felt good about everything for the whole year. But that's not the way the NBA season works. All I know is I talk to Paul and he tells me he wants to keep together and get better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54149]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure friendship's well-feigned blush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Momentum is building for smoke-free measures around the region. It's just a matter of time before there is statewide legislation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Momentum is building for smoke-free measures around the region. It's just a matter of time before there is statewide legislation to ban smoking in restaurants and bars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45487]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and a nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chilled hidebound hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17994]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Bush's strong effort in the state] is probably not going to help him win in California, which at this point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42440]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Bush's strong effort in the state] is probably not going to help him win in California, which at this point seems extremely unlikely, ... But it may force Gore to commit some more resources here to really try to solidify his California Latino base.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gossips with you will gossip of you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gossips with you will gossip of you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the first time that we see that a Western woman, a Belgian, marrying a radical Muslim, and is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the first time that we see that a Western woman, a Belgian, marrying a radical Muslim, and is converted up to the point of becoming a jihad fighter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rod Gilbert and Brad Park are also involved. It's a good chance for fans to hang out and talk hockey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rod Gilbert and Brad Park are also involved. It's a good chance for fans to hang out and talk hockey with people who play the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   O abyss, O eternal Godhead, O sea profound, what more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   O abyss, O eternal Godhead, O sea profound, what more could you give me than yourself? You are the fire that burns without being consumed; you consume in your heat all the soul's self-love; you are the fire which takes away cold; with your light you illuminate me so that I may know all your truth. Clothe me, clothe me with yourself, eternal truth, so that I may run this mortal life with true obedience, and with the light of your most holy faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56947]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every generation needs a new revolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every generation needs a new revolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall look forward to a pleasant time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall look forward to a pleasant time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2051]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great things are only possible with outrageous requests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great things are only possible with outrageous requests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling,  To thought and impulse while they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling,  To thought and impulse while they flow,   That can no comfort bring,    That can, that can no comfort bring,     With those exciting scenes will blend,      O'er pleasure's pathway thrown;       But mem'ry is the only friend        That grief can call its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48484]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are great they make them mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are great they make them mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...this is precisely the purpose of censorship- not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47643]]></link><description><![CDATA[...this is precisely the purpose of censorship- not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from knowing how many millions of others share their unhappiness; to keep the dormant opposition from awakening to its own developing strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Joy to the world! the Lord is come!  Let earth receive her King; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Joy to the world! the Lord is come!  Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare him room,  And heav'n and nature sing. Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns!  Let men their songs employ, While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains,  Repeat the sounding joy. No more let sins and sorrows grow,  Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make his blessings flow  Far as the curse is found. He rules the world with truth and grace,  And makes the nations prove The glories of his righteousness,  And wonders of his love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35099]]></link><description><![CDATA[To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;  Is it less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42744]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;  Is it less strange the prodigal should waste   His wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contract With Women of the USA ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contract With Women of the USA]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What an alteration of honour has Desperate want made! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51373]]></link><description><![CDATA[What an alteration of honour has Desperate want made!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51373</guid></item></channel></rss>