<?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[Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. [Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. [Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don’t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20745]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don’t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change anything when that energy is focused toward justice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the black night and driving rain A ship is struggling, all in vain,  To live upon the stormy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the black night and driving rain A ship is struggling, all in vain,  To live upon the stormy main;--   Miserere Domine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26511]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel a whole lot better. I got this off of my chest and I'm just trying to move forward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel a whole lot better. I got this off of my chest and I'm just trying to move forward right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is extremely important that our customers understand this is an early warning for all of us to start conserving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39687]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is extremely important that our customers understand this is an early warning for all of us to start conserving water now, rather than face the possibility of more extreme measures later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray, Like the divining rods of Magi old,  Where precious wealth lies buried, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray, Like the divining rods of Magi old,  Where precious wealth lies buried, not of gold,   But love--strong love, that never can decay!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth; and that without labour, because he receiveth the light of understanding from above. The spirit which is pure, sincere and steadfast, is not distracted though it hath many works to do, because it doth all things to the honour of God, and striveth to be free from all thoughts of self-seeking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people love in themselves what they hate in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is known by the silence he keeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is known by the silence he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40222]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53951]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened. -Robert C. Murphy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had to have this purse. It was shaped like a big saddle with stirrups and everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had to have this purse. It was shaped like a big saddle with stirrups and everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27623]]></link><description><![CDATA[In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in full operation. We have not missed any service to our customers and our employees have not lost any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31935]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in full operation. We have not missed any service to our customers and our employees have not lost any time,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32559]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any training that does not include the emotions, mind and body is incomplete; knowledge fades without feeling. -Anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any training that does not include the emotions, mind and body is incomplete; knowledge fades without feeling. -Anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   I am glad that you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   I am glad that you have been acquainted, from your youth, with the wrestlings of God, being cast from furnace to furnace; knowing, if you were not dear to God, and if your health did not require so much of him, he would not spend as much physic upon you. All the brethren and sisters of Christ must be conformed to his image in suffering, Rom. viii.17, and some do more fully resemble the copy than others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   God is always present, always available. At whatever moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is God who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. The prayer which is pronounced for God and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1916]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse,  And, chanting her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse,  And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to try to improve our mental attitude that we are able to defend at a 10 level ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35468]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to try to improve our mental attitude that we are able to defend at a 10 level no matter what happened at the other end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2916]]></link><description><![CDATA[As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can plant a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22034]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can plant a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38589]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends are good for your health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends are good for your health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46524]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all were shocked. We saw it burning. We called the fire department. We didn't know how to behave. Chaos ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28312]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all were shocked. We saw it burning. We called the fire department. We didn't know how to behave. Chaos was everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,  Far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43989]]></link><description><![CDATA[O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,  Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam,   Survey our empire, and behold our home!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12792]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12792</guid></item></channel></rss>