<?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[People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44378]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43740]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they will also do the minimum to stop people from going to fight in Iraq to avoid a sectarian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28235]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they will also do the minimum to stop people from going to fight in Iraq to avoid a sectarian conflict at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the difference in the game. He hit everything they threw at him. I'm really happy for Jeff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32500]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the difference in the game. He hit everything they threw at him. I'm really happy for Jeff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be better if we were able to get a deal, but it had to be the right deal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34026]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be better if we were able to get a deal, but it had to be the right deal. It needs to be the right deal for Britain, and it needs to be the right deal for Europe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44284]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I played a blank tape on full volume. The mime who lived next door complained. So I shot him with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I played a blank tape on full volume. The mime who lived next door complained. So I shot him with a gun with a silencer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of oneself, uncumbered with a name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of oneself, uncumbered with a name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learned men and great scholars have devoted great effort and prolonged study to the Holy Scriptures... employing the gifts which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned men and great scholars have devoted great effort and prolonged study to the Holy Scriptures... employing the gifts which God gives to every person who has the use of reason. This knowledge is good ... but it does not bring with it any spiritual experience of God, for these graces are granted only to those who have a great love for Him. This fountain of love issues from our Lord alone, and no stranger may approach it. But knowledge of this kind is common to good and bad alike, since it can be acquired without love, ... and men of a worldly life are sometimes more knowledgeable than many true Christians although they do not possess this love. St. Paul describes this kind of knowledge: "If I had full knowledge of all things and knew all secrets, but had no love, I should be nothing." ... Some people who possess this knowledge become proud and misuse it in order to increase their personal reputation, worldly rank, honours and riches, when they should use it humbly to the praise of God and for the benefit of their fellow Christians in true charity... St. Paul says of this kind of knowledge: "Knowledge by itself stirs the heart with pride, but united to love it turns to edification." By itself this knowledge is like water, tasteless and cold. But if those who have it will offer it humbly to our Lord and ask for His grace, He will turn the water into wine with His blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the quest for an understanding of hair cells at a molecular level that drives our research. We would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41358]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the quest for an understanding of hair cells at a molecular level that drives our research. We would like to understand how hair cells work, why they are vulnerable and why in mammals hair cells do not regenerate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we do here also affects the county -- and vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37738]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we do here also affects the county -- and vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have rather finished the match properly, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41744]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have rather finished the match properly,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44812]]></link><description><![CDATA[OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61978]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast,  When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,   And a man with his back to the East.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger is that a terrorist like Osama bin Laden who is very motivated ... gets a bomb out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35957]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger is that a terrorist like Osama bin Laden who is very motivated ... gets a bomb out of a place like Russia. [Say] some crook steals it, he sells it to Osama bin Laden, Osama bin Laden brings it to Cleveland, or Boston, or L.A., and blows it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10015]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King,  Of wedded maid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8640]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King,  Of wedded maid and virgin mother born,   Our great redemption from above did bring,    For so the holy sages once did sing,     That He our deadly forfeit should release,      And with His Father work us a perpetual peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60619]]></link><description><![CDATA[No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a great release for us. It is really a break from [our] norm, and will gauge what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42559]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a great release for us. It is really a break from [our] norm, and will gauge what we do with this genre. Initial numbers out the door have been very positive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus' Fig Tree He did belittle you.. but soon he'll bebig you.. and in the springwith blooms he will wig ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus' Fig Tree He did belittle you.. but soon he'll bebig you.. and in the springwith blooms he will wig you.. in summer he'll summon a jade garbto resprig you.. and in the fallon patient twigswith fresh fruit he'll refig you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born,  Sang with many a change,   Christmas carols until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born,  Sang with many a change,   Christmas carols until morn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch! I am descended of a gentler blood.  Thou art no father nor friend of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch! I am descended of a gentler blood.  Thou art no father nor friend of mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53842]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;  He could distinguish, and divide   A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10727]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;  He could distinguish, and divide   A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58534]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect It's successful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect It's successful outcome]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't get it together in the first half. In the second, Real came at us but we fortunately played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37407]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't get it together in the first half. In the second, Real came at us but we fortunately played better. We may have won but, to be fair, we didn't play well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella no matter which way you turned, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in the interstices of floor boards, on the iron of a heel, and can measure it and swear to it and weave it into a rope to hang a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461   How wonderful it is -- is it not? -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461   How wonderful it is -- is it not? -- that literally only Christianity has taught us the true place and function of suffering. The Stoics tried the hopeless little game of denying its objective reality, or of declaring it a good in itself (which it never is); and the Pessimists attempted to revel in it, as a food to their melancholy, and as something that can no more be transformed than it can be avoided or explained. But Christ came, and He did not really explain it; He did far more: He met it, willed it, transformed it; and He taught us to do all this -- or, rather, He Himself does it within us, if we do not hinder the all-healing hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee;  Bend on me then thy tender ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57819]]></link><description><![CDATA[When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee;  Bend on me then thy tender eyes,   As stars look on the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56397]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to be wise after the event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50997]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to be wise after the event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved all the Aaron Spelling shows, ‘Beverly Hills 90210' and ‘Models Inc.' At that time, I had pet rats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46444]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved all the Aaron Spelling shows, ‘Beverly Hills 90210' and ‘Models Inc.' At that time, I had pet rats I was raising and I always named all the baby rats after the characters in the shows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45943</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[What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43258]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43258</guid></item></channel></rss>